On Sunday night, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu spoke publicly about Israel’s recent military campaign targeting Iran, emphasizing what he referred to as major accomplishments.
“Our incredible pilots are now flying above the skies of burning Tehran,” Netanyahu said. “We are determined to complete the mission of removing the dual threat.”
Netanyahu also appealed for internal solidarity amid the crisis. “Four of our citizens were killed in Tamra. I heard people cheering, and I am disgusted by it. Missiles do not distinguish between Jews and Arabs. They target us all. The enemy wants to destroy every one of us — and we are fighting this battle together.”
During an interview with Fox News, Netanyahu discussed the reasoning behind the timing of the Israeli military response. “We launched the attack now because we were facing an immediate and existential dual threat. First, Iran was close to using its enriched uranium to produce nuclear weapons, with a clear and explicit intention to destroy us. Second, they were racing to expand their ballistic missile arsenal.”
He said Iran was quickly increasing its missile production capacity. “In three years, that would mean 10,000 ballistic missiles, each weighing a ton and capable of reaching our cities at Mach 6 speeds — as we saw today. In six years, it would have grown to 20,000 missiles. No country can withstand that, certainly not a country the size of Israel. We had no choice but to act, not only to defend ourselves but to protect the world from this dangerous regime. The most dangerous regime in the world must not possess the most dangerous weapons.”
Netanyahu announced that Israel had succeeded in eliminating the intelligence chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, along with his second-in-command. “We chose to act, because we had to. We saw enough enriched uranium for nine nuclear bombs. All they needed to do was weaponize it. We stopped it through targeted strikes. We’re hitting their nuclear sites. We took out their chief nuclear scientist, just like we wouldn’t have left Hitler’s scientists untouched. Would you? Of course not. We also targeted their senior command, and I can now confirm that just moments ago, we eliminated their intelligence chief and his deputy in Tehran.”
He further claimed that the Iranian regime is suppressing the true scale of the destruction it has suffered. “Mass evacuations are happening in Iran right now, but you’re not hearing about it — because they’re hiding it.”
{Matzav.com Israel}