Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders had allegedly encouraged the efforts to develop EMP weapons because it wouldn’t violate Khamenei’s fatwa.
Israel's Operation Rising Lion may have disrupted Iranian efforts to construct an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon, a nuclear fusion bomb, and a standard fission warhead, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius claimed in an op-ed published Saturday, citing Israeli sources.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leaders had allegedly encouraged the efforts to develop EMP weapons because it wouldn’t violate Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s fatwa against nuclear weapons, Israeli sources allegedly told Ignatius.
An EMP weapon is designed to generate a powerful burst of electromagnetic radiation, capable of disrupting or damaging electronic equipment and infrastructure, according to a fact sheet published by the Washington State Department of Health's Division of Environmental Health Office of Radiation Protection.
Israel's military successes in Iran
Israeli attacks also reportedly destroyed 3,000 ballistic missiles and 80% of its 500 missile launchers.
The unnamed Israeli source claimed that Tehran had aims to grow its ballistic missile stockpile to at least 8,000 before the war, necessitating the strikes.
Despite intelligence, Israel was reportedly surprised by the number of solid-fuel missiles in Tehran’s possession.
Sources also claimed that, beyond assassinating many of the masterminds behind Tehran’s nuclear programs, there were hopes that the strikes would dissuade scientists from joining the programs in the future, knowing that doing so would put targets on their backs.
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