The surprise attack that Israel launched against Iran in the early hours of June 13 initiated one of history’s most ingenious, complex, and successful campaigns. A tiny country, its population barely a tenth of Iran’s, projected a multidimensional preemptive strike with pinpoint accuracy over distances up to 1,200 miles without losing a single airplane or pilot. The world has not seen a similar feat of arms since 1967, when Israel, closely supported by the United States, defeated a host of Soviet-supplied Arab armies in the Six-Day War. The consequences for the Middle East, American interests, and the world will be no less significant. Rising Lion In the first few hours of the attacks, Israel incapacitated a regime dedicated to its destruction. The Mossad intelligence agency and commando forces, deploying on the ground and with local networks, activated a covert drone base on the outskirts of Tehran and hit Iran’s air defenses and missile launchers. Waves of jets, led by the Israeli upgrade of the Lockheed Martin F-35, bombed the Natanz Nuclear Facility. More than a dozen senior members of Iran’s military leadership were killed, many at a meeting that the Israelis had tricked them into attending. Drone strikes and car bombs assassinated the leading scientists of the Iranian nuclear program. Later that day, Israel struck the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center, military and air bases, and the approaches to the Fordow nuclear enrichment site. A coordinated Israeli-American disinformation...