An Israeli academic, Orit Perlov, posted a tweet in Hebrew, later deleted, in which she argued that confronting Iran requires a harsh religious approach targeting Iranian children, citing biblical references to the killing of newborns.

She claimed similar tactics were previously applied in Gaza, where over 14,000 children were killed according to UN statistics, and suggested applying the same model in Iran and Lebanon. She also stated that instead of targeting power stations, if top Iranian officials cannot be reached, their children should be killed.

Tal Ornan, formerly of Intelligence Unit 504, spoke to Channel 14, arguing that conventional military action alone would be insufficient to subdue Iran’s regime.

Ornan compared the Iranian leadership to Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire, highlighting what he described as fanatical resistance and extreme willingness to fight to the death.

He claimed there are only two ways to impose total control over Iran: a full-scale invasion reminiscent of Normandy or the use of non-conventional weapons, including nuclear options.

He warned that the government’s current measures would fail, no matter how many are killed, and called for “total war” to achieve his goals.

Iran’s population is around 92 million, with roughly 50 percent women and over 20 percent children, meaning in such a scenario a large portion of casualties would be women and children.

But there may be a deeper logic behind the targeting of Dimona, the site of Israel's secret nuclear weapons plant.

In 2013, Sheldon Adelson, the late husband of Trump's largest donor, Miriam Adelson, called for the US to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran as a "warning" to show "we mean business."

The hundreds of millions of dollars Trump received from the Adelsons came with the expectation that he would initiate war on Iran on Israel's behalf.

Now, as the war Trump launched on Israel's behalf drags him deeper into a quagmire, the prospect of the US or Israel fulfilling Adelson's nuclear wish must be taken seriously.

By attacking Dimona, Iran is sending a warning of its own, reclaiming escalation dominance in the face of Israeli nuclear blackmail.