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Netanyahu vows to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel would take all necessary action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Livemint reported. He was responding to purported remarks by Ahmad…
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel would take all necessary action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Livemint reported. He was responding to purported remarks by Ahmad Vahidi, commander-in-chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which Israel's Channel 14 quoted as saying Iran intends to keep developing nuclear weapons. Israel's Ynet news reported that the authenticity of those remarks has not been verified and that they first surfaced on an unofficial social media account called Mossad Commentary. Following Netanyahu's remarks, US ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz shared Channel 14's post. Preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons has also been a stated aim of the US military campaign against Iran that began on 28 February. Iran continues to describe its nuclear programme as civilian, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's former supreme leader, repeatedly said Islam prohibits nuclear weapons, while Western intelligence agencies and The New York Times have previously assessed that Tehran may still be pursuing weapons capability.
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The remarks attributed to Vahidi sit at the centre of Netanyahu's statement, yet Ynet itself reported that they were never verified and trace only to an anonymous social media account, a gap that did not stop Waltz from amplifying Channel 14's post. That distinguishes the immediate news trigger from the longer-running dispute over Iran's intentions, where Tehran's civilian framing and Khamenei's religious objection stand against Western intelligence assessments that predate the current war. Those assessments, per The New York Times, rest on information gathered before the conflict rather than anything new. Whether Channel 14 or Ynet later publishes confirmation of Vahidi's original remarks is the fact this account leaves outstanding.
Source: www.livemint.com
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