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Benjamin Netanyahu: “If we hadn't done the two military operations that we did…”

Featuring: Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud | Prime Minister of Israel | International

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Extended interview: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Published | Video Starts at 03:28

Their commitment involved their plans over the years to build nuclear bombs and the means to deliver them to the United States. They were very close to developing a nuclear bomb, okay? Very close. In fact, If we hadn't done the two military operations that we did, they'd have a bomb within now or within a month or two. Now, you don't want a fanatic regime like that that hates America, that has no compunction of murdering its own citizen, murdering and wounding tens of thousands of its own citizens. (03:28–03:37)

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Asserts that without two military operations, Iran would have had a nuclear bomb imminently.

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