The long-awaited attack against Iran by U.S. and Israeli forces began this weekend. By the time the sun set in Israel on Sunday night, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was dead, and Iran had attacked multiple Middle East countries and fired missiles that killed civilians near Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv.
Iranian citizens celebrated in the streets of Tehran, and expatriates exulted around the world after joint U.S. and Israeli military strikes killed Khamenei.
An Iranian underground church leader told CBN News, “This has been the wish of the Iranian people. We couldn’t wait to hear this news, and now that has happened, and people are rejoicing.”
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More than 40 top Iranian officials are also dead, including the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Former Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Jonathan Conricus, now with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told us, “I would say that the military results are above and beyond – I think, a very high level of success.”
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Regime change was part of the strategy in Saturday’s joint surprise attacks.
“Cooperation here is unprecedented,” Conricus said. “We have never worked this close with anybody, not even with the Americans before. And what we’re seeing is so far, I would say, world-class delivery by the U.S and by Israel.”
The IDF reports that they dropped more than two thousand bombs in 30 hours, achieving air superiority on day one.
Israel is also striking Lebanon after Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel near Haifa. On a Truth Social video recorded on Sunday, President Trump announced that nine Iranian naval ships were destroyed.
“Combat operations continue at this at full force; they will continue until all our objectives are achieved,” he stated.
Conricus observed, “I think we’re living in historic times, and this will go down in history as a brilliant move of two democracies fighting back, democracies fighting back against tyranny.”
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