Israel Updating Plans for Potential Iran Strike, May ‘Act Independently’: Minister

The Israeli military is currently updating plans for a prospective military strike on Iranian nuclear sites and may act without U.S. support, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz says. Speaking to Fox News last week, Gantz said the Israeli Defense Force has identified targets inside Iran that could allegedly be used to 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 the 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 said. While President Joe Biden has suggested that he would lift sanctions on Iran and return to the 2015 nuclear accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action …
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