India, June 13 -- Iran's top military commanders, including General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of its Revolutionary Guard, were killed in a series of major air strikes by Israel targeting Iranian nuclear facilities and ballistic missile factories overnight.
Salami had warned in May that Iran would "open the gates of hell" if attacked by Israel or the US.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement that "Operation Rising Lion" was launched to prevent the Islamist nation from building an atomic weapon, and "would continue for as many days as it takes."
He said the operation targeted nuclear scientists. Iranian state-affiliated Tasnim news agency reported that half a dozen nuclear scientists were killed....