While Israel launched a massive preemptive air assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 13th, it possesses a significant, albeit officially unacknowledged, nuclear arsenal of its own for deterrence.

Israel said it targeted Iran's oldest current enrichment site, Natanz, in its strikes. The site, secretly set up in 2002 but discovered soon after that, contains an underground fuel enrichment plant and a separate pilot fuel enrichment plant.

Sirens sounded in Israel as Iran launched dozens of ballistic missiles in retaliation for Israel's strikes on its nuclear facilities.

"We wouldn't like to see some kind of nuclear race in the Middle East," Israeli diplomat Tsach Saar told Newsweek.

The president who promised to easily and quickly bring about peace has now found himself accounting for yet another major escalation. President Donald Trump had publicly discouraged Israel from striking Iran in recent days,