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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Netanyahu says Israel is ‘ahead of schedule’ in its operation against Iran
Nava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is “ahead of schedule” in its operation against Iran, during an interview with the Kan public broadcaster aired this evening.
“We are ahead of the schedule we set — both in terms of timing and results,” the premier says on the seventh day of the campaign.
“The work has been outstanding,” Netanyahu says, explaining that he decided on the operation after Israel weakened Iran’s strongest proxy, Hezbollah, at the end of last year, when it was clear that Iran “was racing toward a nuclear capability.”
“The elimination of [former Hezbollah head Hassan] Nasrallah broke the Iranian axis. What does [Iran] have left?… This operation has been in planning for many months,” he says.
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