Israel likely launched its attack on Iran after learning the Islamic Republic was close to building a nuke

Israel launched its missile barrage on Iran this week because the theocratic regime was on the brink of building a crude nuclear device, experts said. Iran was pulling together materials "in a secret place near Tehran to make a primitive warhead," Beni Sabti of the Institute of National Security Studies told Fox News Digital, the likely impetus for Israel's launch of "Operation Rising Lion" — a plan that has been ready to go since April. Tehran also recently announced that it had built and would activate a third nuclear enrichment facility — prompting the UN's atomic watchdog agency to censure…