Iran-Israel war: Operation Rising Lion aimed to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities, was approved 6 months ago, says Netanyahu

Iran-Israel war: Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday disclosed that the broad-scale armed forces operation against Iran, codenamed ‘Operation Rising Lion’, turned into as soon as authorised over six months prior to now, in November 2024, and turned into as soon as on the starting up scheduled for April 2025.

In a recorded speech in Hebrew, the prime minister offered updates about the operation to electorate.

Netanyahu talked about the offensive, geared in the direction of dismantling Iran’s nuclear capabilities, turned into as soon as on the starting up scheduled for April 2025 but turned into as soon as postponed as a consequence of operational concerns.

A visibly elated Netanyahu on the success of Israel’s predominant offensive against Iran’s nuclear installations, missile construction services and senior nuclear scientists and military commanders talked about he'll are trying and accumulate such statements day-to-day.

“I gave instructions to the defence institution bigger than half-a-yr prior to now, in November 2024, to bag rid of the (Iran’s) nuclear programme,” the Israeli Premier talked about.

“It didn’t reach taking place precisely on that date and the explicit date turned into as soon as resolute on the advice of the IDF, in consultation with the Chief of Workers and the Defence Minister,” he talked about.

Displaying a paper claiming it turned into as soon as that of its authorisation, Netanyahu talked about that the operation turned into as soon as planned for April this yr.

“This didn’t happen accidentally or for trivial causes – if Iran has nuclear weapons, we simply won’t be right here,” he emphasised.

Some critics conception it turned into as soon as a distraction in undercover agent of the authorities’s failure to bag the hostages in Gaza launched and moreover attributable to the inner disaster the authorities is facing inner its coalition, with some parties threatening to bring it down over armed forces exemption legislation.

Netanyahu argued that following the assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, Israel made an overview that Iran would expedite its nuclear programme, which it did.

Earlier on Friday morning, the Israeli chief in a video message claimed that Iran has reached a stage of uranium enrichment that it may per chance perchance soon accumulate some nine atom bombs.

“In fresh months, Iran has taken steps that it has never taken earlier than. Steps to weaponise this enriched uranium. And if now not stopped, Iran may make a nuclear weapon in a very short time. It is going to even be a yr, it may per chance perchance be inner about a months, decrease than a yr. Right here's a particular and display possibility to Israel’s very survival,” he claimed, soon after Israel implemented assaults in Iran.

“If we did now not reach foiling Iran’s nuclear programme, we wouldn't exist,” he wired in the afternoon update.

Netanyahu moreover cautioned electorate to now not be in euphoria over the success of the operation and shield peaceful and vigilant. He asserted that there would perchance be retaliation and would perchance be “a label” to pay.

Netanyahu moreover touched upon the subject of American enhance for the attack, which turned into as soon as now not prolonged in undercover agent of Washington’s negotiations with Iran, but expressed faith that it'd be there provided that US President Donald Trump has made it certain that Iran can not accumulate nuclear capabilities.

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