Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would “finish his work” in Iran after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the weekend with the help of President Donald Trump.
Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem after Sunday’s meeting, Netanyahu and Rubio said Israel is locking up with the Trump administration and blocking the path to Iran’s nuclear weapons development.
“Israel has dealt a powerful blow to Iran’s horror axis,” Netanyahu said since Israel and Hamas went to war 16 months ago. “Under President Trump’s strong leadership and with your round-roaring support, we are and will certainly be able to finish our work.”
Rubio called Iran “the greatest source of instability in the region.”
“Nuclear Iran never…it can retain immunity from pressure and actions in itself. It can never happen,” he said. He added that Trump was “clear about that too.”
But Iran rejected the threat — “When it comes to countries like Iran, they can’t… do something,” Esmael Bagihai, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, told a press conference on Monday. And he spoke using a let speech. Iran is funded and supported by several extremist groups in the region, including Hamas and Hezbollah.
Israel considers strikes against Iran’s nuclear facility
The comments came amid signs that Israel is considering a direct strike at Iran’s nuclear facility within months.
Reports predict that US intelligence report ratings predict the last day of President Joe Biden’s administration through President Trump’s early days that Israel would attempt to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities within the next six months. It was done. Israel has pushed Trump in and sees him as more likely to support the strike than Biden, the reviews find.
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Israel said Sunday it received a shipment of a 2,000-pound bomb after instructing the military to lift a Biden-era ban on supplying weapons to Israel a few days after Trump took office in the military.
Bombs, also known as “bunkerbusters,” can penetrate underground areas. In other words, it can be used to attack Iran’s underground nuclear facilities. Israel reportedly used one of the bombs to kill Hassan Nasrara, the leader of Lebanese extremist group Hezbollah, on a strike in Beirut last September.
The Biden administration provided thousands of bombs early in Israel’s siege after Hamas militants killed 1,200 Israelis and lured around 250 on October 7, 2023. A few weeks after the war, research was discovered.
However, Biden has since supported the shipment of bombs out of concern that Israel would drop them into tightly populated areas as Israel prepares to attack Rafa in southern Gaza.
After Hamas agreed to release 33 hostages in exchange for Israel, fighting in Gaza pause last month, releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and began withdrawing its forces from the enclave. Ta. Three other Israeli hostages and 369 prisoners were released on Saturday, making deals to the course after appearing to collapse last week after both sides accused them of violating terms of the contract. It’s set.
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