Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday (local time) claimed that after 20 days of joint US-Israeli strikes, Iran no longer has the capability to enrich uranium or produce ballistic missiles. He claimed that in the first phase of the military operation, United States and Israel destroyed the missile stockpiles, heavily impacted the drones and missile arsenal, including nuclear infrastructure, and now, they are destroying the industrial capability of building back those missiles in the first place.

"We are winning and Iran is being decimated. Iran's missile and drone arsenal is being massively degraded and will be destroyed. Hundreds of their launchers have been destroyed, their stockpiles of missiles are being hit hard and so are the industries that produce then. That's important. In Rising Lion, we destroyed the missiles, and we destroyed a lot of the infrastructure. What we are destroying now are the factories that produce the components that make these missiles. We are wiping out their entire industrial base that we didn't before," PM Netanyahu told reporters.