Overview

• On June 13, Israel initiated Operation Rising Lion with strikes on Iran’s Natanz and Fordow nuclear facilities.
• Iran responded with more than 100 drones targeting Israeli forces, prompting further Israeli counterstrikes.
• On June 16, Iran signaled its intention to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
• Israel holds an estimated 90 nuclear warheads and uranium reserves capable of producing hundreds more under a policy of neither confirming nor denying its arsenal.
• The escalating military exchanges and treaty tension threaten to derail US-mediated nuclear negotiations and stoke global worries about a Middle East arms race.