As the conflict between Israel and Iran rages on, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed that the mullahs have long had their eye on one target in particular: U.S. President Donald Trump.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed in his first interview since Israel launched its blistering attacks on Iran that the country's Islamic regime had pinpointed President Donald Trump as a threat to its nuclear program and actively worked to assassinate him.
"They want to kill him. He's enemy number one. He's a decisive leader. He never took the path that others took to try to bargain with them in a way that is weak, giving them basically a pathway to enrich uranium, which means a pathway to the bomb, padding it with billions and billions of dollars," the prime minister told Fox News' Bret Baier during a special Sunday edition of "Special Report."
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Israeli Prime Minister @netanyahu on intel of Iranian attempts to assassinate President @realDonaldTrump-- "he's enemy number one.." and on when he let President Trump know of the plans for launching the strikes #FoxNews #SpecialReport #Israel pic.twitter.com/l2xX10ZwfH
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) June 15, 2025
As we all know full too well, our now-president—then candidate—came oh-so-close to being murdered almost one year ago today:
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The Israeli Prime Minister also revealed that he himself was a target of the extremist Islamic regime:
Netanyahu revealed he was also a target of the regime after a missile was fired into the bedroom window of his home. He went on to call himself Trump's "junior partner" in threatening Iran's ability to weaponize nuclear arms.
Netanyahu said his country was facing an "imminent threat" of nuclear destruction and was left with no choice but to act aggressively in the "12th hour."
"We were facing an imminent threat, a dual existential threat," he said.
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Netanyahu went to explain exactly why he felt his country had to act—they were facing an existential crisis:
"One, the threat of Iran rushing to weaponize their enriched uranium to make atomic bombs with a specific and declared intent to destroy us. Second, a rush to increase their ballistic missile arsenal to the capacity that they would have 3,600 weapons a year…. Within three years, 10,000 ballistic missiles, each one weighing a ton, coming in at mach 6, right into our cities, as you saw today… and then in 26 years, 20,000 [missiles]. No country can sustain that, and certainly not a country the size of Israel, so we had to act."
They still need to take out one facility, however, before they can sleep easy, as we have reported:
The One Crucial Site Israel Still Needs to Take Out to Stop Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
The conflict rages on at this hour and shows no signs of abating. RedState will keep you updated on the latest events as they occur in this ongoing crisis.
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