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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LIVE | Panchayat Election Results: Countdown to vote counting....
New Delhi: The countdown has begun for the counting of votes for the Assembly elections in five states that have captured the attention of people across the country.
The counting of votes for the Assembly constituencies of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and the Union Territory of Puducherry will begin simultaneously at 8 am, and the fate of candidates in a total of 824 constituencies will be decided shortly.
The counting of postal ballots will take place first, followed by the counting of EVM votes in several rounds.
- Five-state elections: Postal vote counting begins
- TMC, BJP lead in one seat each in West Bengal
In Tamil Nadu, DMK leads in 3 constituencies, while TVK leads in 1 - UDF leads in 5 seats in Kerala, BJP in 1, LDF in 1
- BJP leads in 2 seats, AIUDF in 1 in Assam
