PM: Iran’s nuke program would have been ‘immune in months’; Witkoff: They bragged to us about enrichment
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Tuesday that an attack against Iran was urgently necessary because Iran was building new underground sites to shield its missile and nuclear programs from attacks.
US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, meanwhile, revealed that Iranian negotiators boasted “to us directly, with no shame,” in talks earlier this year, that they had evaded international safeguards to enrich enough uranium so as “to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.”
In an interview with Fox News, Netanyahu said, “The reason that we had to act now is because after we hit their nuclear sites and their ballistic missile program [in June 2025]… they started building new sites… underground bunkers that would make their ballistic missile program and their atomic bomb program immune within months.”
“If no action was taken now, no action could be taken in the future,” he said.
Netanyahu’s comments came less than nine months after he declared, at the end of the June war, that Israel had “achieved a historic victory” over Iran that would “abide for generations.”
In his Fox interview, the prime minister denied that the US and Israel were engaging in an “endless war” against Iran, insisting that the operation would end quickly.
“I hear people are telling you that you’re going to have an endless war here — You’re not going to have an endless war because… this terror regime in Iran is at its weakest point” since its founding, Netanyahu said.
“This is going to be a quick and decisive action,” he asserted.
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