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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Lapid tells UK lawmakers says he was shown intel that supported need for attack on Iran’s nuclear program
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Testifying before a British parliamentary panel via video, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says that he supported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on Iran’s nuclear program because of intelligence that he had been shown.
Lapid was briefed on the pending attack on the evening of June 12, hours before the first Israeli airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program.
“I supported the goals of the operation. We stood together – as a country, as a leadership, as a people,” Lapid tells the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, which had invited him to address the conflict between Jerusalem and Tehran. “I welcome today’s ceasefire. Now it must be translated into an effective agreement, that creates a long-term solution.”
He adds, “Iran must not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. Iran must not be allowed to build an arsenal of ballistic missiles. Iran must not be allowed to fund and arm terrorist proxies. Iran must not be allowed to threaten Israel, the region, or the world ever again.”
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