Trump acted in judicious way in Iran attacks, Netanyahu says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that US President Donald Trump acted in a judicious way in ordering attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that US President Donald Trump acted in a judicious way in ordering attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June.
Speaking to the TRIGGERnometry podcast aired Wednesday evening, Netanyahu said: “President Trump has proven an exceptional, exceptional friend of Israel, an exceptional leader. And he did exactly the right action, the precise action using American power, and came in, I think, in a very forceful but judicious way."
Trump ordered strikes on three of Iran’s main nuclear sites, calling the program “obliterated,” but experts dispute that, saying bombs likely failed to penetrate underground halls, and with UN inspectors barred, the true damage is uncertain.
The long-time Israeli premier told the show that the war on Iran was a preemptive attack after years of threats to annihilate the Jewish state.
Israel launched surprise strikes on June 13 that killed senior Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists and damaged nuclear and air defense sites. Iran says 1,062 people were killed, including 786 military personnel and 276 civilians.
Netanyahu said, “I'll tell you the lessons we, the Jewish people, took from history. Number one is when somebody says they're going to annihilate you, take it seriously. Don't wait for them to do it, but prevent them, as we did in the remarkable action that we took against Iran, because they were developing nuclear weapons, and they were going to have 20,000 ballistic missiles, one tonne ballistic missiles... that would obliterate us."
Netanyahu said the October 7 attack was part of “the Iranian terror axis,” describing how Tehran built a network of proxies to annihilate Israel through a simultaneous assault: Hamas from the south, Hezbollah from the north, waves of ballistic missiles and rockets from Lebanon, Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria, and even Iran itself.
He added that Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel came prematurely, disrupting Iran’s broader plan for a coordinated assault by all its regional allies.
“This was meant to be a simultaneous surprise attack that would hobble Israel and destroy it. I think what happened was that they [investigators] discovered that, basically Hamas fired too soon. They didn't coordinate," he added.
