Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran has never given up efforts to obtain nuclear weapons and that Israel will never allow Tehran to build them.
The Israeli leader, addressing reporters with visiting US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at his side, made no comment about Iran's accusation that Israel had sabotaged its key Natanz nuclear site. Netanyahu, who hosted Austin as part of his tour of Israel after he visited various Israeli military sites, told the Pentagon chief and former CENTCOM commander that "Iran continues to support terrorism in five continents and wants to obtain nuclear weapons; it continues to call for destroying Israel and has been working to achieve that result."
Netanyahu said that "we both know the importance of averting war" and recalled Austin's visit to the national Holocaust Memorial Museum Yad Vashem, vowing that Israel will never let such action happen again, saying that Iran is the "biggest threat to the region."
"Iran has never given up its quest for nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them," Netanyahu said. "I will never allow Iran to obtain the nuclear capability to carry out its genocidal goal of eliminating Israel."
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