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\n 08\/04\/2026 – 20:56 GMT+2\n <\/p>\n
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel remains prepared to confront Iran if necessary, despite a truce reached between Tehran and Washington.<\/p>\n
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“Let me be clear: We still have objectives to complete and we will achieve them, either through agreement or through renewed fighting,” Netanyahu said in a televised statement.<\/p>\n
“We are prepared to return to combat at any moment required. Our finger remains on the trigger. This is not the end of the campaign, but a step along the way to achieving all our objectives.”<\/p>\n
“Iran enters this pause battered, weaker than ever.”<\/p>\n
Netanyahu also hit back at opposition leaders who chastised him for agreeing to the truce before Israel achieved its objectives in the war.<\/p>\n
“As you know, last night a temporary two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran came into effect, in full coordination with Israel,” Netanyahu said in a televised statement.<\/p>\n
“No, we were not surprised at the last moment,” he said.<\/p>\n
Israel’s main opposition figure Yair Lapid called the truce a “diplomatic disaster” for Israel, saying Netanyahu had failed to achieve the country’s goals.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu had set the elimination or at least severe degradation of Iran’s nuclear programme as a central goal of the war, describing it as an “existential threat” to Israel.<\/p>\n
He had also called to degrade Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities, weaken or potentially topple the Iranian regime and curb Tehran’s regional influence by targeting its network of allied groups.<\/p>\n
In his televised statement, Netanyahu spoke about the war’s achievements.<\/p>\n
“We destroyed not only existing missiles, but also the factories that produce them. Iran is now firing what remains in its stockpile and that stockpile is steadily dwindling,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We have severely damaged Iran’s nuclear programme, destroying critical infrastructure and centrifuge facilities,” he said, adding that Israel would ensure that the enriched uranium is removed from Iran.<\/p>\n
“We have crippled the financial and weapons production networks of the Revolutionary Guards,” he said, adding that the campaign had also hit Iran’s steel plants, petrochemical complexes and transport infrastructure.<\/p>\n
“We have dealt a severe blow to the regime\u2019s apparatus of repression. We have eliminated thousands of its operatives and demonstrated that we can reach them anywhere,” the premier said.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu also hailed Israel’s cooperation with the United States in the war.<\/p>\n
“Together, we launched a historic operation, the largest the Middle East has ever seen,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Such a partnership between Israel and the United States against our greatest enemy is also unprecedented.”<\/p>\n
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