Israel says it first bombed Iran to stop it from being able to produce nuclear weapons and the “existential threat” they would represent.

Israel's air force achieved a "remarkable feat," said William Freer, a research fellow for national security at the U.K.-based Council on Geostrategy.

World leaders had gathered Monday in Canada with the specific goal of helping to defuse a series of global pressure points, only to be disrupted by a showdown over Iran’s nuclear program that could escalate in dangerous and uncontrollable ways.

Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately before it's too late,' Trump said at the G7 Summit in Canada.

"Israel is being assisted this way or that way by some Iranians," ex-Israeli National Security chief Giora Eiland told Newsweek.

Israel and Iran have opened a new chapter in their long history of conflict when Israel launched a major attack with strikes early Friday on Tehran.

Iran conflict could open opportunities for Russia to possibly become a power broker to help end the confrontation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed the operation “will continue for as many days as it takes,” while Iran has pledged to retaliate. Stavridis warned that despite