Israel Updating Plans to Attack Iran, Prepared to ‘Act Independently’: Minister

The Israeli military is currently updating plans to strike Iranian nuclear sites and may act without U.S. support, said Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Speaking to Fox News last week, Gantz said the Israeli Defense Force has identified targets inside Iran that could be used to allegedly develop nuclear weapons. “If the world stops them before, it’s very much good. But if not, we must stand independently and we must defend ourselves by ourselves,” Gantz said in his interview, showing an apparently classified target map that revealed Hezbollah missiles and civilian infrastructure along the Lebanon-Hezbollah border. “This is a target map. Each one of them has been checked legally, operationally, intelligence-wise and we are ready to fight,” Gantz added. If the United States lifts sanctions on Iran and returns to the 2015 nuclear accord, Israel is opposed to such a move, Gantz added in the interview. President Joe Biden has suggested …
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