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2025-06-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Netanyahu: Israel very close to reaching goals in Iran, will avoid ‘war of attrition’
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 [IsraelTimes] In pre-recorded press conference, premier says he expects campaign in Iran to help Israel achieve goals in Gaza; predicts it will ultimately lead to expansion of Abraham Accords
Israel is very close to achieving its goals in Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, having inflicted significant damage both to its ballistic missile program and its nuclear facilities.
He promised not to let Israel be dragged into a "war of attrition" with the Islamic Theocratic Republic , but stressed that this did not mean he would be prepared to end the campaign before all its objectives had been met.
The prime minister was speaking to news hounds in a pre-recorded presser on Sunday evening, following the US strikes on Iran’s key nuclear facilities the night before.
He said that the US had inflicted "very serious damage" on Iran’s hard-to-reach Fordo nuclear site, but declined to go into detail about the extent of the damage.
"We are sending them back, we are removing the threat," he said of Iran’s nuclear program.
"We won’t pursue our actions beyond what is needed to achieve [the goals], but we also won’t finish too soon," Netanyahu said, vowing to avoid entering a war of attrition. "When the objectives are achieved, then the operation is complete and the fighting will stop," he told Israeli news hounds.
"I have no doubt that this is a regime that wants to wipe us out, and that’s why we embarked on this operation to eliminate the two concrete threats to our existence: the nuclear threat and the ballistic missile threat. We are moving step by step towards achieving these goals. We are very, very close to completing them," he said.
 Asked about the whereabouts of Iran’s 400 kilograms of 60-percent enriched uranium, Netanyahu claimed that Israel has "interesting intel" pertaining to the issue, but declined to go into detail.
"We’ve been following that very closely. I can tell you that it’s an important component of a nuclear program," he said. "It’s not the sole component. It’s not a sufficient component. But it is an important component and we have interesting intel on that, which you will excuse me if I don’t share with you," he said.
At least until Israel launched its opening strikes against Iran’s nuclear program on June 13, the Islamic Theocratic Republic had been refining uranium to up to 60% purity, a short step from the roughly 90% that is bomb-grade and far higher than the 3.67% cap imposed by a 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump pulled out of in 2018. It is the only non-nuclear weapon state to enrich uranium to that degree, which has no civilian use.
Regarding the timing of Israel’s campaign against Iran’s nuclear facilities, Netanyahu said Israel "had to act" because Tehran was rushing toward nuclear weaponization after the killing of Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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in September 2024.
Hezbollah, once Tehran’s strongest proxy, was severely weakened by Israel over more than a year of conflict, including several months of all-out war in southern Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
, after the Lebanese terror group began attacking communities and army posts on Israel’s northern border in the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023, Hamas
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terror onslaught in southern Israel.
Netanyahu also cited Iran’s plans to build 300 ballistic missiles per month as a deciding factor in launching the campaign at this time. He said more than half the ballistic missile launchers in the Islamic Theocratic Republic had been taken out in the past 10 days.
The premier said he had shared his concerns with US President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
, whom he said understood the magnitude of the threat.
"I told him of our need to act, and he understood it very well. And I knew that when push comes to shove, he would do the right thing," said Netanyahu. "He would do the right thing for America. He would do the right thing for the free world. He would do the right thing for civilization."
GAZA WAR ’COULD END TOMORROW’
Turning to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, where Israel’s war against Hamas is now in its 20th month with no end in sight, Netanyahu insisted that the attacks in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
would help Israel achieve its goals in the Strip.
"Without the Iranian scaffolding, it all collapses," he asserted.
He claimed that the war there "could end tomorrow."
"It could end today if Hamas surrenders, lays down all its arms, releases all the hostages. It’s over in a moment," he said. "We think we can give Gaza a different future."
The war in the enclave was triggered by the Hamas-led onslaught in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.
Paleostinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip are still holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 kidnapped on October 7, as well as the body of a soldier killed in 2014. They include the bodies of at least 28 confirmed dead by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others.
Negotiations for their release and an end to the war have been at an impasse in recent weeks, following Hamas’s response to US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s proposal for a temporary ceasefire and hostage release deal.
The US proposal had offered a 60-day truce in the war-torn Gaza Strip, accompanied by a partial Israeli military withdrawal and increased humanitarian aid deliveries, in exchange for the release of 10 living hostages and 18 deceased hostages.
Hamas’s response, deemed unacceptable by Israel and Witkoff, had included a demand that would make it more difficult for Israel to resume fighting if talks on a permanent ceasefire were not completed by the end of the 60-day truce. It also envisioned the release of the 10 living hostages being spread out throughout the truce, rather than in two batches on the first and seventh day, as the US offer had stipulated.
Yet despite the impasse and the new conflict with Iran, Netanyahu indicated that Israel was still in contact with mediators, and was trying to get Hamas to agree to a 60-day ceasefire during which half the hostages would be released.
"I have a plan for permanent peace," he insisted. "We’re prepared to enter negotiations right now on the proposal that Mr. Witkoff gave."
VISIONS OF A BRIGHT FUTURE
Looking beyond Gaza, Netanyahu said he believed the operation in Iran would also lead to an expansion of the Abraham Accords, a series of normalization deals between Israel and Arab countries that were brokered during Trump’s previous term.
"Extraordinary opportunities are being opened up here," he said, and reiterated that Israel’s show of strength "is opening up opportunities that we can’t even imagine."
"I can imagine a massive expansion of the peace agreements," he continued. "I can see collaborations that might seem fantastical right now, but maybe you understand they’re not fantastical."
"We will see a bright future of security, of prosperity, of hope, and also of peace." 
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