In connection with the Israeli air campaign, the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, has been operating on Iranian soil and targeting senior Iranian nuclear scientists and military officers in an attempt to shatter the Iranian military’s chain of command.

Israel’s campaign, militarily and rhetorically, has quickly evolved beyond its initial targets. Over the weekend, it hit Iran’s energy facilities, including a gas depot and an oil refinery, triggering huge fires and spewing smoke across the sprawling capital of about ten million people.

Iran is often portrayed as one of the world’s most dangerous actors, but with its attacks on Iranian defenses, nuclear sites and proxy militias, Israel has exposed a compromised and weakened adversary.

In a precision strike near Tehran, IAF kills top Iranian intelligence figures, including the heads of IRGC and Quds Force intelligence, dealing 'significant blow' to Iran’s terror planning and regional influence.

President Trump rejected an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a senior U.S. official told USA TODAY.

The Israeli military said it killed nine senior scientists and experts who played a role in Iran’s nuclear program in strikes Friday. Israel says Iran intends to build a nuclear weapon, and is quite close to being able to.

Gholam-Reza Marhabi, Iran’s top intelligence officer, and Mohammad Bagheri, commander of the IRGC’s missile array, named among figures killed in Israel's Operation Rising Lion.

Israel had prepared for the possibility that the war could last for weeks, but that timeline may now be shortened.