Since Iran's ballistic missile attack on Israel last week, there has been much speculation surrounding the question of what exactly Israel's response will be: an attack on military bases, the destruction of launching sites and weapons, or the icing on the cake, an attack on the nuclear sites of the Ayatollah regime.
The New York Times, based on Israeli "officials", says that Israel's initial response against Iran is likely to focus on military bases, and perhaps some intelligence bases or even targets belonging to the regime leadership, According to the report, it seems that Israel will not go after – at least initially – the Iranian regime's nuclear "crown jewels."
After a "major debate" in the Israeli leadership, according to the American newspaper, it appears that the nuclear sites will be preserved for a later time if the Iranians escalate the situation with counterattacks of their own.
The New York Times notes that there is a growing call within Israel, which is also echoed and supported by some in the United States, to seize the moment and reverse Iran's nuclear capability, which American intelligence officials and Western experts have repeatedly claimed is on the verge of producing a nuclear bomb.
The issue of hitting Iran's nuclear sites has become one of the issues of the presidential campaign among both parties in the United States. While President Joe Biden and his administration are working to remove Israel from the idea of attacking nuclear sites and claim that such an attack now would be ineffective and lead to a full-scale regional war, Republican candidate and former US President Donald Trump argued that Israel should "hit the nuclear program first and take care of everything else later."