Israel said Saturday it had killed three Iranian commanders in its unprecedented bombing campaign across the Islamic Republic, which Foreign Minister Gideon Saar claimed had already delayed Tehran's presumed nuclear plans by two years.
Israel's military said its fighter jets successfully targeted top Iranian official Saeed Izadi, in charge of coordination with Palestinian fighter group Hamas, in Qom south of Tehran, and announced the deaths of two other commanders from Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
As Israel continued to strike Iran's nuclear facilities and military targets, in an interview published Saturday, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said by the country's own assessment it had "already delayed for at least two or three years the possibility for them to have a nuclear bomb".
"We will do everything that we can do there in order to remove this threat," Saar told German newspaper Bild, asserting Israel's onslaught would continue.
Israel and Iran have traded wave after wave of devastating strikes, after Israel launched its aerial campaign on June 13, fearing Tehran was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon -- an ambition Iran has denied.
Israel said it had attacked Iran's Isfahan nuclear site for a second time after its air force said it had also launched salvos against missile storage and launch sites in central Iran.
US President Donald Trump warned a day earlier Tehran has a "maximum" of two weeks to avoid possible American air strikes, as Washington weighs whether to join the Israel's unprecedented bombing campaign.