Tel Aviv, June 13, (dpa/GNA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Friday that Israel’s strikes on Iran, aimed at eliminating its nuclear threat, would continue for as long as needed.
The attack, dubbed “Operation Rising Lion,” is to continue “for as many days as it takes to remove this threat,” he said.
Netanyahu said Israel struck “Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz” and also targeted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists who were working to develop the bomb. Israel also struck at the centre of Iran’s ballistic missile programme, the prime minister said.
In what appeared to be an appeal to the US public, Netanyahu said Iran is gearing up to produce 10,000 ballistic missiles in three years, and asked his listeners to imagine the landing of 10,000 tons of explosives “on a country the size of New Jersey.” He made his video address in English.
Netanyahu condemned what he said was Iran’s stepped up pursuit of uranium enrichment that he called “a clear and present danger to Israel’s very survival.”
He noted that 80 years ago, the Jewish people were the victims of the Nazi Holocaust and now, the Jewish state will never allow those who want to destroy it to succeed. Throughout his roughly seven minute speech, he made repeated references to World War II and the Holocaust.
The Israeli prime minister also thanked US President Donald Trump “for his leadership in confronting Iran’s nuclear weapons programme.”
GNA