Netanyahu alleges Iran plotted to assassinate Trump over nuclear tensions
Washington: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has alleged that Iran’s leadership actively sought to assassinate U.S. President Donald Trump. In an interview with Fox News aired on Sunday, Netanyahu claimed that Tehran’s Islamic regime identified Trump as “enemy number one” due to his hardline stance against Iran’s nuclear program.
Netanyahu stated “They want to kill him. He’s enemy number one.” Pointing to the U.S. president’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear agreement and authorization of the drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, Netanyahu remarked "He never took the path that others took to try to bargain with them in a way that is weak."
During the interview, Netanyahu also claimed that he himself had been targeted by the regime while making a reference to an incident in which a missile struck the bedroom window of his residence. Describing himself as Trump’s "junior partner" in confronting Tehran, he claimed that both leaders had faced serious threats for opposing Iran’s ambitions to develop nuclear weapons.
Netanyahu further claimed his country faced an immediate and growing threat from Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities. He claimed that Iran was accelerating both its uranium enrichment and missile production. He called Iran an existential danger to Israel. According to his claim, Iran’s expanding arsenal and producing thousands of ballistic missiles annually which is capable of delivering heavy warheads at high speeds directly into Israeli cities.“No country can sustain that and certainly not a country the size of Israel, so we had to act,” he said.
Defending his government's actions the Israeli prime minister stated “Negotiations with the terrorism-sponsoring regime are going nowhere,” he said.
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Congress’ downfall will start from Baramati if it doesn’t let Sunetra Pawar win unopposed: Bawankule
Nagpur (PTI): The Congress will have to face consequences if it doesn't allow NCP president and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar to win the Baramati assembly bypoll unopposed, said minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Thursday.
The party’s “downfall” will start from Baramati, he said, stressing that the people of Baramati and Maharashtra wish that she is elected unopposed, said the BJP leader.
The April 23 bye election was necessitated after the tragic death of deputy CM Ajit Pawar, who headed the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), in a plane crash in Baramati on January 28. After his death, his wife Sunetra became the party president.
The NCP, BJP and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are partners in the ruling Mahayuti alliance in the state.
“The Congress will face consequences if it doesn’t let Sunetra win unopposed from Baramati. Its downfall will start from Baramati if it doesn’t withdraw its candidate,” Bawankule told reporters in Nagpur.
Amid efforts to ensure an unopposed contest, the Congress has fielded advocate Akash More for the bypoll.
The party had said that it would withdraw from the contest only if an FIR were registered in Ajit Pawar’s death in the Baramati plane crash.
Replying to another question, Bawankule said the BJP’s performance will be more robust in Assam and Kerala elections compared to the last assembly polls in these states. Assembly polls are being held in a single phase in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on Thursday.
“These elections will once again show Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership commanding support among the people,” he said.
