Netanyahu says he wants to ‘achieve the complete elimination’ of Iran threat

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said one of his main goals for the remaining two years of US President Donald Trump’s term is the “complete elimination of the Iranian threat” to Israel, the United States and the wider world.

Speaking on Life, Liberty & Levin, Netanyahu said he believed Israel and the United States were already moving toward that objective through military and economic pressure on Tehran.

“Achieve the complete elimination of the Iranian threat to Israel, to America, to the world,” Netanyahu said when asked what he wanted to accomplish with Trump over the next two years.

He praised what he called Trump’s “brilliant leadership,” citing both military action and the US economic blockade, and added: “Let’s complete the job and have the people of Iran seize their own future.”

Netanyahu says Iran’s establishment must go

Netanyahu later described Iran as the center of what he called a regional network that includes Hezbollah and the Houthis, while drawing a distinction between Iran’s government and its population.

“The Iranian people are great people. They have a historic legacy there, culture, one of the great civilizations of history,” he said.

He said Iran had been “kidnapped and hijacked” by its current leadership and argued that the only way to remove the threat was ultimately to end that system of rule.

“The only way that you can deal with it is basically to get rid of this regime,” Netanyahu said, adding that this would be “a long process” involving military and economic pressure.

Netanyahu also said Trump had consistently emphasized preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and argued that Iran posed a direct threat to the United States because of its missile and nuclear ambitions.

He said Tehran was developing intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States and wanted to pair them with nuclear warheads.

Netanyahu said his broader goals with Trump also included expanding the Abraham Accords and building what he described as a regional bloc of “peace, moderation and promise” against Iran and its allies.

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