In a foreign policy speech to the Knesset on Monday, Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that Israel had destroyed an element of Iran’s nuclear program during its airstrikes on Iran in October, while degrading Iran’s defense and production capabilities. missiles from Tehran. “There is a specific component of their nuclear program that was hit during this attack,” declared the Israeli Prime Minister, without precisely identifying this target. He admitted, however, that despite the success of this strike, “Iran’s path to nuclear weapons was not yet blocked.”
On October 26, Israeli warplanes carried out three waves of attacks against Iranian military targets, weeks after Iran fired around 200 ballistic missiles at Israel. Netanyahu also provided details of the April strikes, revealing that Israel then destroyed one of four Russian-made S-300 surface-to-air missile batteries around Tehran. In October, “Israel destroyed the three remaining batteries and caused serious damage to Iran’s ballistic missile production capabilities and its ability to produce solid fuel, used in long-range ballistic missiles,” he said. -he clarified.
The prime minister stressed the crucial importance of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons: “If we don’t deal with their nuclear program, then all the other problems will come back,” he warned, adding that the only way to avoid further October 7-style attacks was to “prevent a nuclear Iran.”
Netanyahu also discussed his conversations with President-elect Donald Trump since the November 5 election: “We have not talked about methods of action. At the moment, we have not talked about policy. There is a time for that, when the president takes office. But I can say that we see things the same way regarding the Iranian threat.
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