Damage from air strikes in Tehran. Photo: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images On Friday, Israel made good on decades of threats to take military action to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, which its leaders have long viewed as an existential threat to their country. The massive, ongoing series of missile and drone strikes has targeted Iranian nuclear and military sites, as well as senior regime officials and atomic scientists. Israel’s offensive, with the biblically resonant title Operation Rising Lion,