Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News that he launched airstrikes against Iran to prevent “a nuclear holocaust,” claiming his government had intelligence that Iran was months away from developing an initial nuclear weapon.
“We had to act,” Netanyahu told Fox’s Bret Baier on Sunday (local time). “It was the 12th hour, and we did act. To save ourselves but also […] to protect the world from this incendiary régime.”
“The intel we got and we shared with the United States was absolutely clear: That they were working in a secret plan to weaponize the uranium, they were marching very quickly, they would achieve a test device and possibly an initial device within months, and certainly less than a year,” he said.
“That is something that we couldn’t possibly accept,” he continued. “We will not have a second holocaust, a nuclear holocaust. We already had one, in the previous century — the Jewish state is not going to have the holocaust committed on the Jewish people. It’s not going to happen.”
Netanyahu also claimed that Israel saw enough enriched uranium for nine bombs. “All they had to do was weaponize them. We stopped that.”
Asked if régime change was among his objectives in Iran, Netanyahu said: “It could certainly be the result, because the Iran régime is very weak.”
Netanyahu said “80 percent of the people would throw these theological thugs out.”
“They shoot women because their hair is uncovered. They shoot students. They just suck the oxygen out from these brave and gifted people, the Iranian people.”
“The decision to act, to rise up this time, is the decision of the Iranian people.”
In short, Netanyahu thinks that Usonians are all blockheads.
Hey guys, remember how everyone’s been saying China’s gonna crumble for decades now?
You know what people have also been saying for decades now? That Iran was going to build nukes any day now; Israel’s been fearmongering about this for decades now. Is it possible NOW that Iran may build them? Sure, but only because it’s literally become the only thing to deter being invaded or nuked ‘pre-emptively’
So basically the thing Israel has been fearmongering about that has no evidence it was happening now won’t happen and, again, there’s no evidence it was happening and thus no evidence it was stopped but we have to take your word for it
Hey what percentage of the population do you think are excited you’re bombing their country?
Now this is probably gonna come as a massive shock to you, but wait’ll you hear what you and your country have been doing for literally almost two years now!
You heard the man Fox news! Time to send a correspondent out to Iran and hear the people’s views from their own mouths about what’s happening right now! I’m sure it’ll reflect exactly what’s been stated here! Also you’ll DEFINITELY win a Pulitzer prize for inventing the technique of talking to people being attacked/invaded by a Western country rather than just hearing about them from people who’ve never been there! It’s my own invention but I’m willing to let you have the prize for actually putting in the effort to talk to the people there, something Western news has literally yet to invent!