Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says attack dubbed Rising Lion would take ‘many days’

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Israel has launched an attack on Iran aimed at “dozens” of targets including its nuclear facilities, claiming that Tehran had begun to build nuclear warheads.

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the attack, dubbed Rising Lion, was aimed at “rolling back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival”, adding that it would take “many days”.