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Netanyahu: Iran had been building bunkers that would’ve made nuclear, missile programs immune within months
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says an attack against Iran was urgently necessary because Iran was building new underground sites to shield its missile and nuclear programs from attacks.
“The reason that we had to act now is because after we hit their nuclear sites and their ballistic missile program… they started building new sites… underground bunkers that would make their ballistic missile program and their atomic bomb program immune within months,” Netanyahu claims in an interview with Fox News.
“If no action was taken now, no action could be taken in the future,” Netanyahu says in a snippet aired by the US outlet.
The full interview will be aired shortly.
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