Israel attacked Iran nuclear and military sites on Friday as tensions reached new heights over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Israel’s airstrikes damaged Iran’s nuclear program but likely fell well short of eliminating it, experts said, presenting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the US with a quandary on what to do next.

The Israeli military targeted Iranian nuclear facilities, research scientists and senior military commanders in dozens of preemptive airstrikes​.

US-Iran nuclear talks will shape not only Iran’s nuclear future but also the integrity of global nonproliferation norms and the broader energy security environment. After years of stalled diplomacy, US and Iranian officials are once again at the negotiating table.

The United Nations nuclear watchdog said Iran’s rapidly increasing stockpile of uranium enriched to just below weapons grade cannot be allowed to continue without a firm international response.

European powers and the United States submitted a resolution to the UN's nuclear watchdog board on Tuesday condemning Iran's "non-compliance" with its nuclear obligations, in a bid to up pressure on Tehran,

"There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter... come to an end," Trump wrote on social media.