Netanyahu: ‘We Sent Iran’s Nuclear Program Down the Drain’

In a video statement summing up Operation Rising Lion against Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, “We achieved a historic victory.”

U.S. President Donald Trump “enlisted in an unprecedented fashion,” Netanyahu says, and thanks him for “his part in defending Israel, and removing the Iranian nuclear threat.”

Netanyahu says the historic development — U.S. striking Iran in support of Israel — is “the fruit of a diplomatic campaign he led with [Strategic Affairs] Minister Ron Dermer.”

“Israel has never had a friend like President Trump in the White House, and I thank him greatly for our joint work,” says Netanyahu, hours after a livid Trump blasted Israel for violating the ceasefire with Iran.

U.S. forces “destroyed” the underground Fordo enrichment site, he says, adding that “we sent Iran’s nuclear program down the drain.”

“If someone, if someone in Iran tries to restore that program, we will act with the same determination, the same power, to cut off any such attempt,” says Netanyahu.

“I repeat – Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.”

Netanyahu boasts that Israel also destroyed Iran’s ballistic missile production program and most of its launchers.

Israel also “landed crushing blows on the evil regime” itself. He lauds the attack on Iran early this morning, before the ceasefire took effect, the same massive strike Trump raged against in front of the cameras this morning. He says Israel landed “the most severe blow in [the regime’s] history.”

Turning to Gaza, Netanyahu says, “We must defeat Hamas and bring back the hostages.”

Looking to the future, Netanyahu says that — with Iran’s axis in tatters — Israel will open an “axis of prosperity and peace of the nations of the region” and beyond.