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\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News on Sunday that he launched airstrikes against Iran to prevent \u201ca nuclear holocaust,\u201d claiming his government had intelligence that Iran was months away from developing an initial nuclear weapon.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe had to act,\u201d Netanyahu told Fox\u2019s Bret Baier on Sunday. \u201cIt was the 12th hour, and we did act. To save ourselves but also \u2026 to protect the world from this incendiary regime.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe intel we got and we shared with the United States was absolutely clear: That they were working in a secret plan to weaponize the uranium, they were marching very quickly, they would achieve a test device and possibly an initial device within months, and certainly less than a year,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat is something that we couldn\u2019t possibly accept,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe will not have a second holocaust, a nuclear holocaust. We already had one, in the previous century \u2013 the Jewish state is not going to have the holocaust committed on the Jewish people. It\u2019s not going to happen.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Netanyahu also claimed that Israel saw enough enriched uranium for nine bombs. \u201cAll they had to do was weaponize them. We stopped that.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Asked if regime change was among his objectives in Iran, Netanyahu said: \u201cIt could certainly be the result, because the Iran regime is very weak.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Netanyahu said \u201c80% of the people would throw these theological thugs out.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey shoot women because their hair is uncovered. They shoot students. They just suck the oxygen out from these brave and gifted people, the Iranian people.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe decision to act, to rise up this time, is the decision of the Iranian people.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News on Sunday that he launched airstrikes against Iran to prevent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[44887,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-187332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-hnk","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-us","11":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114689527632459237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}