Bennett: We are taking initiative against Iran now

• Published date: 28 September 2021
• Author: LAHAV HARKOV

Iran's pace of advancement towards a nuclear weapon is "unacceptable," and Israel's approach is "not just apocalyptic warnings, but initiative. We mean what we say," Bennett said.

"We are acting in the present and will continue. I believe that consistent and determined action can make a difference," he stated.

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In his speech at the UN, the prime minister mentioned that Iran is enriching uranium to 60%, one step away from weapons-grade material, and warned that "Iran's nuclear weapon program is at a critical point. All redlines have been crossed. Inspections – ignored. All wishful thinking – proven false. Iran is violating the [International Atomic Energy Agency's] safeguard agreements – and it's getting away with it.

"Iran's nuclear program has hit a watershed moment – and so has our tolerance," he said. "Words do not stop centrifuges from spinning."

Bennett pointed out that he had said in his UN speech that Iran is more vulnerable than it seems because they are "a rotten regime, alienated [from its people and] cannot function: not in coronavirus, not in providing water and electricity to large parts of the country. They're corrupt."

Those vulnerabilities give Israel leverage to try to stop the regime's malign actions, he added.

Bennett said in his speech that Iran's military drone unit threatens the entire world, mentioning the attack on the Mercer Street vessel – in which Iranian suicide drones killed a British and a Romanian citizen – as well as its proxy armies throughout the Middle East, which it plans to arm with thousands of deadly unmanned aerial vehicles.

He later said that he...