Israel Strikes Iran: What’s Next?

It was a bad day for the mullahs of Iran. And from what I’m hearing, there are many more bad days to come.

WATCH: Israel strikes Iran killing top military leaders

We can all rejoice at that prospect.

When the first video images of the Israeli air strikes on Tehran began to surface, an eerie quiet hung over the city. No air raid sirens sounded at first. Just fireworks in the sky.

Inside Iran, people were initially fearful of a Russia-style mass casualty missile attack. But when they heard that specific houses had been targeted – the home of the commander of the Revolutionary Guard, the head of the missile forces, the head of the nuclear program, and Quds Force General Gholam Ali Rashid – they were elated.

Israel was doing what the Iranian people have been incapable of doing: taking out the chief terrorists of a regime that first and foremost is terrorizing the people of Iran.

That was just the first wave of the attacks. The second wave involved two hundred Israel Air Force jets launching bunker buster bombs against a handful of nuclear sites, including Iran’s largest enrichment facility in Natanz.

The Israelis dubbed it Operation Rising Lion, as in the Lion of Judah.

In an address to the nation, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that the airstrike would “continue for as many days as it takes to remove [the] threat” of a nuclear-armed Iran.

Iran’s nuclear program was “a clear and present danger” to the Jewish people, with enough weapons-grade fuel currently on hand to make nine weapons, he said.

If that sounds alarmist, it’s actually an understatement. The IAEA says Iran has enough highly-enriched uranium to make 17 weapons in five months.

Netanyahu also mentioned Israel’s recent operations against Iranian proxies in Syria and Lebanon, attacks that led to new governments in both countries.

Is that the secret subscript of this attack? Regime change in Iran?

If I knew the answer to that, I wouldn’t be saying. But I can this with certainty: the Iranian people are fed up with this murderous regime, which not only terrorises Iranians but has impoverished what used to be the leading economy in the region just 45 years ago.

I discuss the attack in detail, and what we can expect in coming days, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

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Yours in freedom.

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