Netanyahu Says Israel Averted an Immediate Nuclear Threat from Iran

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a press conference in his office that Iran will not get nuclear weapons, whether there is an agreement or not. He framed the issue as an urgent threat to Israel and said the recent action removed what he called an immediate danger of destruction.

Netanyahu told reporters that critics ask what Israel achieved, and he answered, “What did we achieve? We pushed away an immediate danger of annihilation. Most importantly, we saved the State of Israel from a nuclear destruction threat.”

He added that Iran already had nuclear bombs, and that the implications would have been catastrophic for Israel’s population. According to Netanyahu, “millions of Israeli citizens, all of you, would have been in terrible danger,” warning of “the elimination of Israel’s population.”