Netanyahu: If No Action Was Taken, Iran Could “Blackmail” America and Threaten Israel
Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu explained the imperative of the joint US-Israeli strike on Iran in an interview with FNC host Sean Hannity.
SEAN HANNITY: Joining us now is the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for being here. I know you’ve probably gotten very little sleep in the last number of days. Why now? What precipitated this moment at this time? I know you have talked about it. We’ve known each other 30, 35, maybe more years. And why at this point was this necessary? ISRAEL PM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Well, the first thing to understand is why it’s necessary at any time. Iran, for 47 years, has been chanting, Death to America. Death to Israel, too. But you’re the big Satan, we’re the small Satan. Death to America. They’ve murdered and maimed thousands of Americans in Iraq, in Afghanistan, with their IEDs, these are roadside bombs. They’ve bombed your embassies. They’ve tried to assassinate Donald Trump, the President of the United States, twice. They’ve murdered their own people. They’ve massacred so many. And they’ve spread a worldwide web of terror. So this is a regime committed to destroying the United States of America. It’s the only country on the planet that says so openly and works tirelessly to achieve that goal. The reason that we had to act now is because they were, after we hit their nuclear sites and their ballistic missiles program, you’d think they’d learn a lesson. But they didn’t, because they’re unreformable. They’re totally fanatic about this, about the goal of destroying America. So they started building new sites, new places, underground bunkers, that would make their ballistic missile program and their atomic bomb program immune within months. If no action was taken now, no action could be taken in the future. And then they could target America. They could blackmail America. They could threaten us and threaten everyone in between. So action had to be taken, and you needed a resolute president like Donald J. Trump to take that action. And we are his very strong and able partners, and our alliance today is so strong. So we had to take the action now, and we did. Otherwise, the Iranian mass murder regime would have immunity from future action.
