About Israel Strikes Iran

Israel Strikes Iran is the striking, dramatic, and copiously-sourced account of how the Iranian regime labored for decades to develop nuclear missiles for use against Israel — to usher in an apocalyptic paradise, and  how Israel employed measures both spectacular and subtle to prevent this. On June 13, 2025, decades of Israeli strategy, planning, and tactics came together Operation Rising Lion. With support from the US in Operation Midnight Hammer, the 12-Day War began. It ended with Iran’s principle weapons development sites in rubble and ruins and the ayatollahs’ world-ending desires thwarted — for a time.

Josh Block, Hudson Institute adjunct fellow, says that Edwin Black is “one of the first journalists to understand the gravity of this story and to share its urgency with the world …” and continues, “For more than two decades, he has applied his considerable investigative skills, unparalleled sourcing, and analytical wizardry to alerting his readers to the developments and dangers along the way.” JNS Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex wrote, "Edwin Black has once again not only recorded history but predicted it. Black began researching and writing Israel Strikes Iran years before the strike took place, presciently envisaging that Iran’s nuclear ambitions would eventually be ended by Israeli air power. As he has done over and over again in his compendium of award-winning historical narratives, Black has brilliantly assembled the striking backstory that ultimately led up to Israel’s stunning Operation Rising Lion."