Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated in an interview aired on Sunday that the "war with Iran is not over," reigniting efforts to dismantle Tehran's proxies and bring about the collapse of its nuclear enrichment program. "I think it accomplished a great deal, but it's not over, because there is still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be..."
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Iran war is “not over” in an interview that aired on Sunday, reinvigorating the push to dismantle Tehran’s proxies and see its nuclear enrichment program collapse.
“I think it accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over, because there’s still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran,” Netanyahu said during an appearance on CBS News’s “60 Minutes.”
“There are still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce,” he added.
The prime minister’s comments come as the Trump administration says Iran must end all uranium enrichment as a broader condition for peace in the region.
President Trump on Sunday said he had reviewed Iran’s response to a peace proposal and called it “totally unacceptable.”
Iranian officials have rejected the notion that they must end uranium enrichment but have proposed diluting some of its highly enriched uranium, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Leaders in Tehran have offered to transfer the rest of its enriched uranium to a third country to be returned if negotiations fail or the U. S. exits the agreement later on, according to The Journal.
Amid multiple proposals, Netanyahu said he envisions someone “going in” and taking Iran’s enriched uranium if an agreement cannot be reached.
“I’m not going to talk about military means, but what President Trump has said to me, I want to go in there, and I think it can be done physically. That’s not the problem,” Netanyahu said in the interview.
“If you have an agreement, and you go in, and you take it out, why not? That’s the best way,” he added.
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