We attacked because Iran’s nuclear programme would have been ‘immune within...

Key Highlights

• “The reason that we had to act now is that after we hit their nuclear sites and their ballistic missile programme (in the 12-day war last year in June)… they started building new sites…underground bunkers that would make their ballistic missile programme and their atomic bomb programme immune within months,” the Israeli Premier told the TV channel.
• “If no action was taken now, no action could be taken in the future,” he stressed.
• This is contrary to the claims made last year by Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump.
• The Israeli leader had said that Israel had “achieved a historic victory” over Iran that would “abide for generations” and Trump claimed that the Iranian nuclear programme had been totally “obliterated”.
• Critics, however, had started expressing doubts over the claims, saying that Iran may have moved and secured the enriched uranium in some other location prior to the bombings.