The Iran war will end “when the Iranian regime falls, or weakens to such an extent that it understands that it must end its nuclear program,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a Sunday interview with Fox News.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu insisted that Iran end its nuclear program “with or without a deal,” noting that US-Israeli attacks against the Islamic regime had set the program back by “a good few years.”<\/p>\n
He noted that the decision whether or not to renew major strikes on Iran was “in many ways” the decision of US President Donald Trump, warning that Tehran had the potential to rebuild sites and capabilities damaged or destroyed in the US-Israeli strikes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Iran attacks Israel, either directly or through proxies, either with ballistic missiles or UAVs or killer drones, it will make a terrible mistake,\u201d Netanyahu added. \u201cIsrael\u2019s response will be very, very forceful.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prime minister added that he does “intend to come to New York” despite comments by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani saying he would not be welcome in the city.<\/p>\n
I’ve appeared [at the United Nations] almost every year in my prime ministership,” said Netanyahu.<\/p>\n
He also addressed the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him and other Israeli officials, noting that ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan, “the one who promoted” the warrant, has since been “completely exposed as a criminal,” referring to Khan’s recent dismissal from the ICC over sexual harassment allegations against him.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu argued that Khan had used Israeli war crime accusations as a method to divert attention away from his own criminal activities.<\/p>\n
“On the day he [Khan] was going to visit Israel, he canceled everything, he called a news conference and accused me and the former defense minister of war crimes,” said Netanyahu. “Now we’ve learned why.”<\/p>\n
This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Iran war will end “when the Iranian regime falls, or weakens to such an extent that it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,85,87,79845,46,43,58038,2201],"class_list":["post-560619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-islamic-regime","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-nuclear-program","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}