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Benjamin Netanyahu: “Khamenei wanted to put it [ballistic missile factories]…”

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Extended interview: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Published | Video Starts at 17:22

He knew that we were approaching a situation where Iran could produce a nuclear weapon. He knew that we were approaching a situation where Iran's ballistic missile capability after Rising Line was going to be reconstructed. And Khamenei wanted to put it [ballistic missile factories] underground. The factories underground, not the missiles, the factories underground to produce more and more and more ballistic missiles and to do the same with his nuclear industry, put them underground under a heavy mountain where even B2s couldn't reach it. (17:22–17:25)

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Asserts that Khamenei intended to move ballistic missile factories underground.

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