Netanyahu: With or Without a Deal, Iran Won’t Have a Nuclear Weapon
“We removed from over us this danger of the elimination of Israel’s population for years to come.”
Israel will not allow the Iranian regime to acquire nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a press conference responding to the initial U.S.-Iran agreement.
“With an agreement, without an agreement, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon,” Netanyahu declared on Monday afternoon. “Not today and not tomorrow. As long as I am prime minister of Israel, it will not happen.”
The press conference marked the Israeli Prime Minister’s first public appearance since President Donald Trump announced an initial U.S.-Iran deal early Monday.
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Initial reports indicate that the agreement seeks to extend the current ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to international transit. The Iranian state media portrayed the agreement as a great victory, claiming that the U.S. would release $24 billion worth of frozen assets before a final deal is reached within the next 60 days.
Prime Minister Netanyahu highlighted the success of the joint U.S. Israeli strikes. He noted that prior to the operation Epic Fury, Tehran was “racing” towards a nuclear weapon. The five-week-long campaign eliminated the regime’s leadership and dismantled its nuclear infrastructure, the prime minister assured.
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Israel will retain buffer zones created in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria to avert October 7-style attacks. “We established deep security zones around Israel, in Gaza, in Lebanon, in Syria. We will remain in the security zones as long as needed to defend our country,” he declared. “After October 7, I set a simple principle: Israel will not allow terror organizations to prepare for a massacre near our citizens.”
Ahead of the Prime Minister’s press appearance, Defense Minister Israel Katz assured that the military “will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza — without any time limit — in order to protect Israel’s borders and communities from jihadist elements.”
The Times of Israel published an excerpt from the prime minister’s address:
“We launched the largest attack operation in Israel’s history. We targeted the nuclear scientists; we eliminated the leaders of the terror regime; we crushed the nuclear facilities; we destroyed missiles and the vast majority of the factories that produce missiles. We struck countless military industries and infrastructures. We destroyed their navy, their air force. We eliminated base commanders who massacred the Iranian people. We caused enormous damage — [some] estimate it in the hundreds of billions of dollars, some estimate it at even close to a trillion dollars — to Iran’s economy,” he says.
“We removed from over us this danger of the elimination of Israel’s population for years to come. That is what we did. We saved the State of Israel from annihilation,” he says.
He adds, however, that “the struggle is not over and complete. We will need to continue standing guard, continue being strong and determined, and defend ourselves as much as necessary.”
“This is true not only against Iran,” he says, saying Israel’s fight will continue against “Iran’s terror arms” as well, as he says it has been doing against groups in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and the West Bank.
Amid concerns over US limitations on Israeli freedom of action, Netanyahu adds that in addition to fighting terror groups in those areas, “we established deep security zones around Israel… in Gaza, in Lebanon, in Syria,” and stresses that “we will remain in the security zones for as long as necessary to protect our country.”
Netanyahu: We caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damage to Iran pic.twitter.com/f4lOqbPosJ
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Following his address, Netanyahu told reporters that he intends to run for a seventh term as prime minister.
The Jerusalem Post reported his brief interaction with the press:
During the question and answer session following his speech, Netanyahu said that Israel is at the forefront of developing a solution to the threat of first-person view drones.
When responding to a question about whether he was right to launch Operation Roaring Lion on February 28, Netanyahu denied that one of the objectives was to overthrow Iran’s Islamic regime.
Netanyahu also said he is planning to run again in the upcoming elections, adding that he is “going to win.”
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Bibi for president!
Don’t get me wrong. I wholly support Israel. What I don’t support are those who use issues and causes they don’t really support to undermine President Trump.
Bibi for Pope!
I LOVE Bibi!!!
Stay strong.
Well he’s right from Israel’s perspective. We’re at a fork in the road where Israel and the US are going to go their separate ways. Both are going in the same general direction but the needs of each are different. This doesn’t mean they won’t work together from time to time but I wouldn’t be surprised if they are at odds at times as well.
Israel is building up its own domestic munitions and armaments industry, which is a strategic and frankly long overdue necessity, given that past and future Dhimmi-crat presidents have/will cut off munitions shipments to Israel, and, given the rabid Jew-hate and Israel-hate that have infected the entire, wretched communist/Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist Dhimmi-crat Party and its wicked apparatchiks..
I think you’re reading too much into the alleged diplomatic “fork in the road,” though. Islamofascism and Muslim terrorism aren’t just existential threats to Israel, exclusively, or, to Israel and the U.S., jointly — they’re threats to global peace and stability, and must be treated. Whether the U.S. deals with this problem on its own, or, in conjunction with our allies, the problem must be confronted and deal with.
Maybe. The Vance wing of the party is perhaps Israel-neutral or Isreal-leans positive. That’s fine as long as they don’t tilt the other way. The democrats are rapidly becoming anti-Israel. That is a long term problem I believe. I think it best for Israel to cut some of its ties with the US. At least cut some of the dependencies because the US won’t be as steadfast with Israel as it has been lately.
Also, the US and Israel do have differing strategic goals. They overlap a bit but they aren’t the same, It would be good for both if they cooperated as partners when appropriate. That’s not the case now as the current “deal” is being imposed on Israel regardless of their dislike for it,
The Vance wing is generally younger and more populist, more focused on things that impact the Nation directly, less trusting of institutions and the neocon, establishment, corporatist policies preferred by older generations.
The assessment of ‘neutral’ or lean towards Israel seems very accurate. Personally I respect the heck out the Israelis but I ain’t an Israeli and I don’t make my home in the Middle East. The US got along just fine before 1948 and creation of the modern State.of Israel. I don’t wish them ill, in fact I wish them well but there are other priorities that rank higher much closer to home. It is absolutely not the duty or responsibility of the USA to maintain open maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz or the Red Sea. The Panama Canal and ranks way higher and even there why is USA performing the security function (for free) when the same globalist, corporatist, neocon establishment crafted policies to atrophy our US merchant fleet?
While I agree with your emphasis on taking care of our own back yard (Panama Canal) maintaining the oil flow in the Middle East is not entirely a “don’t care” for the USA regardless of Israel. Perhaps less important than it used to be now that we are energy independent but it still has a major impact on world energy prices. And freedom of navigation has been a cornerstone of our foreign policy since the founding of the republic, we have been involved in the Middle East since at least the Barbary Wars.
Firstly I.didn’t claim it was an ‘I don’t care’ issue. Rather I stated it is a lower priority than other things that have direct impact on the safety, security,.economic and general well-being/quality of life of US Citizens.
Secondly I didn’t claim we couldn’t assist in freedom of navigation. We can and should but we should do so in proportion to our % of the world’s merchant fleet. I believe we are down to roughly 200 US flagged merchant vessels. There are landlocked and/or relatively insignificant Nations who have far more merchant vessels flying their flag. Let them build and crew naval vessels sufficient to protect their merchant fleet and/or materially contribute to protecting general freedom of navigation.
Third. The Barbary States were basically western/central coast of North Africa in more/less what is now Morocco,. Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. That ain’t the ME. Plus the punitive actions against the Barbary States was in response to direct attacks on US flagged vessels which is absolutely something we should repeat if US flagged vessels are attacked.
Fourth our energy independence renders ME oil and Nat Gas far less important to the USA than to Japan, India, Australia, Korea, Singapore and so on for oil and to Europe for LNG. Unfortunately those Nations continue to free ride on US military.
Fifth it isn’t our duty or responsibility to secure the shipping lanes certainly not ‘for free’ which was the very important caveat you skipped over. The Nations who are dependent upon ME oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz can either build their own Navy to provide security or pay the USA to do it for them. No more free ridding for them and certainly no imposition of tariff and non tariff trade barriers on US exports to those Nations which they’ve done for decades.
Trump has sent a clear message to Israel and it ain’t good. That Israel has not been part of this “deal” is a slap in the face to them. Of course, we all know that Israel would be the contrarians in all this, but they do deserve a say.
I don’t think Israel wanted to be a part of this deal.
Not having signed onto anything leaves them a free hand.
Particularly so since Iran hasn’t agreed to anything regarding Israel, and Hezbollah hasn’t agreed to anything whatsoever. Given this, why would Israel tie its own hands behind its proverbial back?
It can be assumed that Israel possesses nuclear weapons. On 22 September 1979 (!) the American VELA satellite detected the characteristic double flash of a nuclear explosion in the ocean off of South Africa when South Africa was still a country. Intelligence sources indicated that it was a test of a joint Israeli-South African developed nuke. South Africa removed or destroyed its nuclear program before it fell.
Therefore it can be considered that Israel has had nukes for 46 years.
If you can launch a 350 lb satellite into a an orbit that you can pick of 100 miles altitude or greater, you have at least a counter-value ICBM capability. Israel passed that long ago, and has numerous satellites that meet those parameters. This is in addition to a large number of shorter range missiles that can reach much of the Ummah.
If Israel is hit, or believes it is about to be hit; they will launch a strike. As an exercise for the reader, name the 6 targets which if destroyed would end the Islamic threat. And realize that they have far more than 6 nuclear armed missiles.
Subotai Bahadur
They have a Triad. Planes that can drop nukes or standoff missiles. Submarines with a nuke cruise missile. ICBMs and IRBMs buried somewhere with probably at least MRVs if not MIRV. I’ve seen estimates that they have between 150-200 nukes. That might be an underestimate.
6 targets huh
Mecca and Medina
Qom and Tehran
Islamabad and Ankara
Bagdad Damascas and Cairo
Beirut and Amman for extra credit
That’s 11. But wait there’s more. Many more.
MS will give you with some cajoling the 6 holiest Islamic sites, Ive probably been reported to the FBI and CAIR by getting it, They’re in Mecca Medina Jerusalem and Iraq,
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