12 Day War: How Israel Fought Iran

On June 13, 2025, Israel stunned the world by decapitating Iran's Revolutionary Guard leadership-29 generals wiped out in a single night-and reducing the Natanz and Shiraz enrichment sites to smoldering ruins; Tehran's retaliatory drone and missile barrages-over 600 in all-were largely blunted by Iron Dome's 85 percent interception rate. Meanwhile, Mossad's covert "Operation Narnia" silenced Iran's top nuclear scientists, and nine B-2 Spirit stealth bombers flew a secret 37-hour nonstop sortie from Missouri to drop 30,000-lb bunker busters on the deeply buried Fordow Nuclear Facility. A Qatar-brokered ceasefire on Day 12 closed out the fiercest micro-war in modern history-millions displaced, oil surging past $100 a barrel, and a radical new blueprint for joint U.S.-Israeli precision warfare. And by forcing both sides into an ultimatum only he dared issue, Donald Trump reshaped global power balances and changed the world. This is The Twelve Day War, brought to life by Shalom Mann in the second installment of his series, Documenting War.