Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that he was doing everything possible to prevent a nuclear Iran and assured the Israeli public that Israel was already executing attacks against it.
“Who says we are not attacking Iran, we are attacking,” Netanyahu told reporters in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. “Iran is the head of the octopus and you see its tentacles all around from the Houthis to Hezbollah to Hamas.”
“Iran is standing behind it. We are in conflict with Iran. .. Imagine not what Iran can to do us, to destroy us,” Netanyahu said.
He described a situation in which Israel is battling the proxies of the Islamic Republic on three fronts, Israel’s southern and northern borders as well as in its waterways.
Given this reality “imagine what [Iran] can do to the Middle East, to capture it, to destroy regimes, to control international maritime passages” to say nothing of the global threat it presents.
“Imagine if this is what Iran is doing now, when it doesn’t have nuclear weapons, how critical is it that we stop it from acquiring nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said.
Delaying Iran’s nuclear capabilities
Israel under his leadership has delayed Iran from producing nuclear weapons by at least 10 years, he claimed, adding that it could still do more but that he did not want to elaborate on what that was.
“I am obligated as the Prime Minister of Israel to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, not just for our security and existence but for the protection of the entire world.”
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