September 30, 2025
Israel Strikes Iran–Operation Rising Lion
Class Description
Negotiations and agreements had not deterred Tehran’s nuclear ambition. In response, Israel spent years planning Operation Rising Lion, while the U.S. planned Operation Midnight Hammer, which put an end to Iran’s nuclear program.
In his book Israel Strikes Iran: Operation Rising Lion, Black argues that, while Iran’s nuclear capability was obliterated, without regime change, it can be reconstructed.
Edwin Black is one of the first journalists to understand the gravity of this story and to share its urgency with the world. Do not miss the opportunity to learn the backstory of Operation Rising Lion from this renowned journalist.
Speaker Bio
Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling investigative author of 200 award-winning editions in 20 languages in 190 countries, as well as scores of newspaper and magazine articles in leading publications in the United States, Europe and Israel.
Editors have submitted Black’s work thirteen times for Pulitzer Prize nomination, and in recent years he has received top editorial awards.
Black has contributed to numerous anthologies worldwide, and he hosts the weekly Edwin Black Show. Black’s eleven award-winning bestselling books are IBM and the Holocaust (2001 and 2012), Financing the Flames (2013), British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement (2011), The Farhud (2010), Nazi Nexus (2009), The Plan (2008), Internal Combustion (2006), Banking on Baghdad (2004), War Against the Weak (2003 and 2012), The Transfer Agreement (1984 and 2009), and a 1999 novel, Format C:.