By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said in a live broadcast statement that Israel’s attack on Iran will continue with “full force and uncompromising momentum.”
Israel has a well-prepared plan with many surprises to undermine “Iranian regime” and “enable change,” Netanyahu said.
He was addressing the Iranian people, he said, “The moment of truth is approaching. We do not seek to divide Iran, but to liberate it and live with it in peace.”
He condemned the UN for “condemning us without reason in our just war against Iran’s murderous proxies in Gaza and doing nothing about the massacre in Iran.”
PM also demanded that the Lebanese government enforce the ceasefire agreement and disarm Hezbollah, media reported.
He warned “If you do not do this, Hezbollah’s aggression will have disastrous consequences for Lebanon,”.
US President Donald Trump said the United States had severely weakened Iran’s military after a week of fighting, while signaling that Washington holds strong negotiating leverage but is not actively pursuing a settlement with Tehran.
He was speaking to reporters during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One, Trump described the early phase of the conflict as a decisive blow against Iran’s armed forces. The United States and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran on February 28.
“We’ve wiped out their Navy, 44 ships. We’ve wiped out their Air Force. Every plane,” Trump said. He said American strikes had also crippled Iran’s missile capabilities and launch infrastructure.
“We’ve knocked out about 70 per cent of the rocket launchers,” he said.
He added that the systems were “very hard to get, very expensive.”
According to Trump, the reduction in launchers and manufacturing capacity has sharply reduced Iran’s ability to retaliate.
“They’re at about 9 per cent of what they sent out in the first two days,” he said.
