US-Israel strikes on Iran: Netanyahu says 'we are very, very close to completing the objectives' | Today news

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday (June 22) said that Israel is approaching its strategic goals in Iran, following a series of high-profile-led air strikes on Tehran’s core infrastructure. “I do not doubt that it is a regime that we want to eradicate, and so we have embarked on this operation to eliminate the two concrete threats to our existence: the core threat and the ballistic missile threat,” Netanyahu said, addressing reporters. ‘We move step by step towards achieving these goals. We are very, very close to completing it. ‘ He emphasized that the campaign would only end if these goals were achieved. “We will not pursue our actions as necessary to achieve this, but we will not finish too soon,” he added. “We will not be dragged into a war of dismantling,” Netanyahu made it clear that Israel would avoid being trapped in prolonged conflict. “We will not be dragged in a war war, but also not end the campaign prematurely,” he said. He also revealed that Israeli intelligence had new insights: “We have interesting Intel about the location of Iran’s 60% enriched uranium,” he said, suggesting that further strikes could be threatening. Netanyahu prays for Trump after the strikes hours after the strikes, Netanyahu visited the western wall in Jerusalem to pray for US President Donald Trump, whose administration authorized the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites. In a video released by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, Netanyahu is seen praying with his wife Sara and placing a handwritten note in the wall. “Blessing, protecting and helping the United States President Donald Trump, who took it upon himself to cast out angry and darkness in the world,” he prayed. Trump: “Iran must now make peace” President Donald Trump, who authorized the strikes as part of Operation Midnight Hammer, defended the decision and warned Iran against retaliation. “Iran’s most important core enrichment facilities have been completely and completely wiped out. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace,” Trump declared. He added a clear warning: “There will be peace, or there will be tragedy for Iran.” The US Army delivers devastating blow the Pentagon confirmed that B-2 bombers dropped 30,000 pounds of bunker busher bombs on Iran’s major core facilities, including Fordow, Nathanz and Isfahan. While Iran and the IAEA said there was no radiation leak, the Pentagon said the facilities had gained “sustained, extraordinary serious damage and destruction.” Iran condemns us, promised Reply Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned: ‘The Americans must receive an answer to their aggression’, in comments to French President Emmanuel Macron. “The warmth and lawless administration in Washington is exclusively and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far -reaching implications of his act of aggression,” Araghchi said, adding that he would fly to Moscow to coordinate with Russia. We say diplomacy is still on the table despite the aggressive strike, the Trump administration has indicated openness to diplomacy. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio refrained from specifying whether the US would respond with military power if Iran tried to close the street of hormuz or whether Iranian proxy groups had targeted oil infrastructure. “I’m not going to take away options from the president, it’s not something we’re talking about in terms of immediately.” Rubio acknowledged that although such a move would affect the US, it would have far greater consequences worldwide – especially for China. ‘It would be a suicide movement [Iran’s] Share because I think the whole world would come against them if they do, ‘Rubio said.