In a brazen pre-emptive strike, Israel executed a devastating assault on Tehran, targeting its burgeoning nuclear infrastructure and resulting in the extrajudicial elimination of two high-ranking Quds Force commanders, General Hossein Salami and General Mohammad Bagheri, marking the most egregious violation of Iranian sovereignty since the Iran-Iraq War; these actions, justified by Israeli leadership as a necessary intervention to forestall an impending nuclear threat emanating from Iran’s clandestine weapons development program, were met with retaliatory drone deployments and a bellicose pronouncement from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowing implacable retribution; the aerial bombardment, encompassing approximately one hundred strategic targets, including the pivotal Natanz enrichment complex, precipitated the immediate closure of regional airspace across Israel, Iran, Iraq, and Jordan, triggering a parabolic surge in Brent crude futures, while a hawkish Defense Minister Israel Katz ominously foreshadowed imminent and proportionate reprisals from the Islamic Republic.