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Benjamin Netanyahu: “Our planes controlled the skies over Tehran, which was…”

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

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Extended interview: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Published | Video Starts at 16:26

… were bad, were getting worse, but also because they saw that Iran is not this overwhelming, you know, neighborhood bully, that nobody could resist. We resisted them. We fought them. Our planes controlled the skies over Tehran, which was unthinkable before that. And then they went onto the streets. They were mauled, they were massacred, they were wounded, maimed by the tens of thousands. And so, you know, that memory has to linger. (16:26–16:31)

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