PM’s office touts Netanyahu’s efforts against nuclear program, doesn’t deny Trump blocked Iran strike

In its first comment on the matter, the Prime Minister’s Office does not deny a New York Times article saying US President Donald Trump blocked a proposed Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities last month.

The statement says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lead a campaign for over a decade against Iran’s nuclear program, even when critics have called the threat a “political spin” or called the premier “paranoid.”

“The prime minister has led numerous overt and covert actions in the conflict against Iran’s nuclear program,” the statement says, adding that because of those operations, Tehran does not possess a nuclear arsenal today.

“As the prime minister has declared many times, Israel will not allow Iran to possess a nuclear weapon,” the PMO says.