Reuters – Israel killed more than 30 senior security officials and 11 main nuclear scientists to take a hard blow to Iranian nuclear ambitions, a senior Israeli military official said on Friday by summarizing the 12 -day air war from Israel with Iran.
In the United States, an independent expert said that an examination of commercial satellite imagery has shown only one of the approximately 30 Iranian missiles that have penetrated the air defense of Israel has managed to achieve militarily significant objectives.
“Iran has not yet produced missiles that demonstrate great precision,” a associated research analyst of the CNA Corporation specialized in satellite imagery told Reuters.
In Israel, the senior military leader said that the opening strike of Israel on June 13 on Iran had seriously damaged its air defenses and destabilized its ability to respond to the early hours of the early conflict.
The Israel Air Force struck more than 900 targets and the soldiers deeply damaged the production of Iranian missiles during the war which ended with a ceasefire of American mail, said the manager.
“The Iranian nuclear project has undergone a hard blow: the regime’s ability to enrich uranium at 90% has been neutralized for an extended period. Its current ability to produce a nuclear nucleus has been neutralized,” said the manager.
Smoke turns in the distance from an oil refinery following an Israeli strike on the Iranian capital Tehran on June 17, 2025. (Atta Kenare / AFP)
Iran, which denies having tried to build nuclear weapons, retaliated against strikes with missile dams on Israeli sites and military cities. Iran said it had forced the end of the war by penetrating the Israeli defenses.
The Iranian authorities said that 627 people had been killed in Iran, where the extent of damage could not be confirmed independently due to close restrictions on the media. Israeli authorities said 28 people had been killed in Israel.
Eveth, the independent American expert, said that the Iranian missile forces were not exact enough to destroy small military targets such as the F-35 fighters of American manufacturing in their shelters.
“For this reason, the only targets they can reach with regularity are major cities or industrial targets such as the Haifa refinery,” he told Reuters.
The Iranian missile salvas – limited by Israeli air strikes in Iran – did not have density to reach high destruction rates, he wrote on X.
“At the current level of performance, nothing actually prevents Israel from carrying out the same operation in the future with similar results,” he wrote.
The Israeli security forces inspect the site struck by an Iranian missile strike which killed several people, in Beersheba, Israel, June 24, 2025. (AP photo / Leo Correa)
On Friday, in a statement, the Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that he had ordered soldiers to write plans to protect air superiority over Iran, prevent nuclear development and missile production, and tackle Iran’s support for militant operations against Israel.
FDI’s chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Eyal Zamir, said on Friday that the result in Iran could help advance the Israeli objectives against the Palestinian terrorist group of Hamas supported by Iran in the Gaza Strip.
Zamir told Gaza troops an Israeli terrestrial operation, known as “Gideon’s Chariots”, to a close future to reach its higher control objective of the Palestinian enclave and current options in the Israeli government for additional action.
Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report.
