The traditional military means of Israel regarding Iran are more limited than they want the world to believe. Distances, the hardening of Iranian targets, and the limited availability of Israeli platforms speak are the reasons.
Iran meanwhile has driven its key research facility deeper and deeper under that damn mountain of theirs. I doubt it can be reached by conventional ammunitions delivered by missile or aircraft anymore. It needs a truck driving an according payload into the base.
Israel most likely is unable to militarily act on its own without falling back to using nukes or being massively, very massively assisted by the US. Iran is not the Lebanon, or close-by Egypt. Its distant away, and it is huge. It can be reached by Israel in a dare-devil air operation and many mid-air refuelings and permits to use foreign air space and such. But I doubt any such attack can have any signficant effect on installations of their njuclear program. Its more symbolic if such an attack woudl take place.
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