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Monday, April 7, 2025
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Monday, April 7, 2025
Netanyahu: If Iran nukes can be fully stopped diplomatically, ‘that would be a good thing’
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking moments before Trump revealed that the US is holding direct talks with Iran on its rogue nuclear program, indicated his wary support for the move.
“We’re both united in the goal that Iran does not get nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said, sitting alongside the president in the Oval Office. “If it can be done diplomatically, in a full way, the way it was done in Libya, I think that would be a good thing.”
“But whatever happens, we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu stressed.
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