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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said the Jewish state will "do what we need to do" to prevent a "second Holocaust," eliminating an existential threat posed by Iran in the escalating war between the two nations to protect not only Israel, but the entire world.
"We are absolutely resolute to remove this threat," Netanyahu told Bret Baier of Fox News, referring to the Islamic Republic's continued rapid development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
He said Israel's ongoing military strikes against Tehran are "not only to protect ourselves but protect the world from this incendiary regime. We can't have the world's most dangerous regime have the most dangerous weapons. … By protecting ourselves, we're protecting many others."
Netanyahu said Israel's intelligence indicated Iranians were "working in a secret plan to weaponize the uranium. They were marching very quickly."
With estimates of a nuclear weapon between months and a year, Netanyahu noted, "Once they build that route, it's too late."
"We would have a second Holocaust, a nuclear holocaust. We already had one in the previous century. … Never again is now, and we have to act now."
"We saw enough uranium to weaponize nine bombs," Netanyahu continued. "It's like Hitler's nuclear scientists. Would you leave them? Of course not."
He said intel also revealed a dark scheme to provide such weapons to militant groups backed by Iran in other countries.
"Our intel showed that they intend to give their nuclear weapons to their Houthi proxies and others, and that's nuclear terrorism on a global scale. It threatens everyone."
The prime minister said this conflict is "a wider battle here against barbarism, of good against bad," saying Iran has "fomented evil everywhere."
"This is a forever war that Iran is doing without nuclear weapons. Imagine what they will do if they have them."
Netanyahu said he's been in "constant contact with President Trump" regarding Israel's military plan to eliminate Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
"He knew about it, of course," he explained. "He's standing up for good against evil. … President Trump will make the decisions that are best for America. That's the way it is. … That is a relationship of mutual respect and mutual confidence."
The prime minister said the fighting "will end when we remove those [nuclear] capacities, and we will."
