Netanyahu Vows to Obstruct Iran’s Future Plans to Revive Nuclear Program
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu delivered his address during the annual ceremony preceding Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers (Yom HaZikaron) at the Yad LaBanim Memorial in Jerusalem.
On Tuesday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to dismantle any Iranian efforts to resurrect its nuclear program during a national address following twelve days of conflict.
“Iran shall not possess a nuclear weapon,” Netanyahu declared after a ceasefire halted mutual airstrikes between the two nations.
“We have disrupted Iran’s nuclear initiative, and should any party in Iran attempt to reconstruct it, we shall respond with equal resolve, with unyielding intensity, to thwart any such endeavor,” he continued.
INetanyahu lauded a “historic triumph” in his nation’s twelve-day confrontation with Iran, pledging to prevent Tehran from reestablishing its nuclear infrastructure.
“We have secured a historic victory,” Netanyahu proclaimed in a televised address to the nation following the initiation of a mutually agreed ceasefire.
“Iran will never possess a nuclear weapon,” he assured viewers in his nearly ten-minute discourse.
“We have disrupted Iran’s nuclear initiative, and should any party in Iran attempt to reconstruct it, we shall respond with equal resolve, with unyielding intensity, to thwart any such endeavor,” he reiterated.
Earlier, Israel’s military chief Eyal Zamir stated that the strikes had regressed Iran’s nuclear program “by years,” deeming the campaign against the nation as “transitioning into a new phase.”
Iran announced on Tuesday its readiness to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States as the ceasefire took effect.
However, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian asserted that his nation would persist in “asserting its legitimate rights” to the peaceful utilization of atomic energy.
Earlier Tuesday, Israel’s government proclaimed that it had eradicated the “dual existential threat” posed by Iran’s nuclear program and missile capabilities during its strikes.
Netanyahu asserted that Israel’s assault on Iran, dubbed “Operation Rising Lion,” would be “inscribed in the chronicles of Israel’s wars and studied by military forces worldwide.”
The operation encompassed repeated strikes on Iran’s nuclear and missile sites, the assassinations of military and domestic security service leaders, along with bombings targeting state media and Evin prison in Tehran.
Following the United States’ involvement in the conflict with strikes on Sunday, President Donald Trump declared that his forces had “utterly annihilated” Iran’s primary nuclear sites.
Israel states it has “refrained” from additional strikes on Iran following Trump’s call.
Analysts, however, indicate uncertainty regarding whether the strikes have rendered the nuclear threat unreachable, suggesting the possibility that Iran may have relocated its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium from the targeted sites.
Tehran has consistently denied aspirations of acquiring nuclear weaponry.
