He is certain that now is the right time to strike Iran, before it makes its final nuclear breakthrough.“If today the West has little success in taming the ayatollahs, it will have zero success when they obtain nuclear weapons,

Iran's U.N. envoy warned the country had the "right to take all necessary measures to respond to this egregious violation."

An independent U.N. commission says Israel has intensified airstrikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria, inflicting civilian casualties on at least three occasions.