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Netanyahu warns Putin Iran will fill Mideast power vacuum after IS defeat
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns Russian President Vladimir Putin that Iran will fill the vacuum of power after the Islamic State group is defeated by the coalition of nations fighting it.
“In a joint effort, we are defeating Daesh,” Netanyahu tells Putin using an alternate name for the jihadist group. “But the bad part is, that wherever Daesh is defeated, Iran is taking its place.”
“We cannot forget for a single minute that Iran threatens every day to annihilate Israel,” he says. “It arms terrorist organizations, it sponsors and initiates terror.”
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