Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Netanyahu to CNN: We've been taking action against certain Iranian weapons development

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN in an interview on Tuesday that Israel has acted against Iranian threats but would not go into details.

In the interview with Jake Tapper, Netanyahu explained his position on Iran and said, “If you have rogue regimes that are (intending to get) nuclear weapons, you can sign 100 agreements with them, it doesn’t help.”

“I think the only way that you can stop or abstain from getting nuclear weapons is a combination of crippling economic sanctions, but the most important thing, is a credible military threat,” he added.

Netanyahu told Tapper that Israel has been “taking action against certain weapons development” in Iran. However, he refused to confirm or deny whether Israel was behind drone attacks at a military plant in Isfahan over the weekend.

“I never talk about specific operations… and every time some explosion takes place in the Middle East, Israel is blamed or given responsibility – sometimes we are sometimes we’re not,” he said. READ MORE