3 hours agoNetanyahu says ‘it’s time’ to see leaders of other countries join US, Israel against Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News on Sunday that other world leaders should join the U.S. and Israel against Iran, arguing the regime is “putting everyone in their sights” and “trying to blackmail the entire world.”
Netanyahu spoke to Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst after an Iranian ballistic missile slammed into a residential area in the southern city of Arad overnight, injuring more than 100 people.
“Israel and the United States are working together for the entire world, and it’s time to see the leaders of the rest of the countries join up,” Netanyahu said. “I’m happy to say that I can see some of them beginning to move in that direction, but more is needed.”
The prime minister warned that the regime in the last 48 hours showed “proof that Iran endangers the entire world” with strikes against Israeli civilian areas and firing ballistic missiles toward Diego Garcia, a key U.S.-U.K. military base in the Indian Ocean.
“I’ve been warning all the time. They have now the capacity to reach deep into Europe. They already have fired on the European country, Cyprus,” Netanyahu said. “They are putting everyone in their sights.”
The prime minister also cited the regime’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for oil exporting.
“They’re stopping a maritime, international route energy route and trying to blackmail the entire world,” Netanyahu said of the Iranian regime. “What more proof do you need that this regime that threatens the entire world has to be stopped?”
Yingst also asked whether Israel would join the U.S. in strikes against the Iranian power grid after President Donald Trump’s warned that the U.S. would “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran fails to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.
“I think President Trump knows exactly what he’s doing,” Netanyahu said. “And whatever we do, we do together and as far as possible in confidence.”