Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his statement that "in the 12 days of Operation 'Nation as a Lion' we achieved a historic victory. And this victory will stand for generations. We removed two immediate existential threats, the threat of annihilation by nuclear bombs and the threat of annihilation by 20,000 ballistic missiles. If we had not acted now, the State of Israel would soon have faced the danger of annihilation, but that didn't happen because at the decisive moment we rose like a lion, and our roar shook Tehran and echoed throughout the world."