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Netanyahu claims ‘historic victory,’ says ‘we sent Iran’s nuclear program down the drain’
Times of Israel ^ | 6/25/2025 | Lazar Berman

Posted on 06/25/2025 7:40:59 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video address on June 24, 2025. (Screen capture/GPO) In a video statement on Tuesday summing up the war against Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel “achieved a historic victory” that would “abide for generations” following the US-brokered ceasefire to end the 12-day conflict.

He said Israel removed “two existential threats — the threat of destruction via nuclear weapons and the threat of destruction via 20,000 ballistic missiles” that Iran was moving to build. Israel would have faced destruction in the near future “if we hadn’t acted now.”

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: defense; iran; israel; military
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But the program is still alive?
1 posted on 06/25/2025 7:40:59 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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To: whyilovetexas111

I am sure they are hiring new scientists or trying to get some from China, NK or Russia.


2 posted on 06/25/2025 7:43:46 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Trump presser right now. Watching it on isbn. He’s slapping the press around in his moment go glory. Watch the replay if you can. It’s catnip-lol.


3 posted on 06/25/2025 7:44:50 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: whyilovetexas111

But the democrats said.it was a total failure!


4 posted on 06/25/2025 7:45:19 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: oldbill

Pete Hegseth is looking like POTUS material!


5 posted on 06/25/2025 7:47:25 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: whyilovetexas111
Well... The leftist media, Obama and the Democrats are certainly hoping so... Thankfully they are wrong. If the Israeli's say it's dead...


6 posted on 06/25/2025 7:49:04 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission; null and void
‘we sent Iran’s nuclear program down the drain’

You've gotta be quick these days to keep up with all the visuals swirling around in a base of blueberry Ice Cream!

/Swelling Spiral Galaxy

7 posted on 06/25/2025 7:50:33 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: whyilovetexas111

“””He said Israel removed “two existential threats — the threat of destruction via nuclear weapons “”

I didn’t see Israel taking out nuke facilities.


8 posted on 06/25/2025 7:52:20 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: whyilovetexas111
Well Bibi, some lying lawyer sitting behind his terminal in DC says it ain't true.
9 posted on 06/25/2025 7:52:23 AM PDT by Chgogal (Voting Democrat is suicidal.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

LOL Bibi is full of himself!


10 posted on 06/25/2025 7:54:29 AM PDT by Sunsong
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To: whyilovetexas111

This is twice now Netanyahu has given himself credit over Trump’s efforts.


11 posted on 06/25/2025 7:54:49 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: whyilovetexas111

They’ll rebuild it if they really want to.
They still have the knowledge.


12 posted on 06/25/2025 7:55:20 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: whyilovetexas111

It’s all Kabuki War Theater. I think what Simplicius says makes a lot of sense, both in terms of the actual strike and Iran’s “retaliation” - see article here: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/shayrat-redux-trumps-invisible-fleet . If this is the case, the more disturbing question then is, is this this just Trump bluster or is he being kept in the dark on the actual operation?


13 posted on 06/25/2025 7:55:25 AM PDT by tballard56
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To: silent majority rising

yes

they are offering a tremendous benefits package

the highlight is the free burial insurance


14 posted on 06/25/2025 7:57:15 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: SmokingJoe

they will just wait until there is a dem appeaser in the oval office

hopefully there will be regime change before that happens


15 posted on 06/25/2025 7:59:59 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: whyilovetexas111

Bibi next week probably: “Iran is 2 weeks away from a nuclear weapon”


16 posted on 06/25/2025 8:05:37 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: KobraKai

💯


17 posted on 06/25/2025 8:09:39 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Openurmind

In fairness, Israel did the lion’s share here for such a little country.

Operation Grim Beeper and the subsequent near-destruction of Hezbollah
Hamas destroyed
Syria softened for overflight
Total destruction of Iran’s air defenses
Assassination of Iran’s Command & Control
Targets greatly softened up

Nary a SAM launched at our boys.

Very much a full partner in the action.

Could they have done the coup de gras? Maybe, but it probably would have involved Israeli troops fighting their way into the facilities.


18 posted on 06/25/2025 8:14:07 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: KobraKai

“Bibi next week probably: “Iran is 2 weeks away from a nuclear weapon””

Interestingly, the best evidence of destruction of Iran’s nuclear program is Israel not beating the drum that CNN provided saying the attacks were not successful.

If Bibi wanted more war, he’d embrace the CNN’s lie.


19 posted on 06/25/2025 8:16:11 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: whyilovetexas111
Iran's nuclear program is back to zero.

Estimates are that Iran has invested as much as 25% of it's GDP to nuclear weapons and missile/drone development and production to arm it's proxies in the Middle East.

This investment has been done over the last 35 years.

No doubt some of the Iranian defense infrastructure survives but most of the really expensive and capitol intensive infrastructure has been destroyed.

If Iran tries to rebuild it is going to take many years of 25% of GDP level investment to re build because Israel and the US have destroyed in a few months networks and stockpiles that took Iran 50 years to build.

One of the more significant parts of the Israeli plan was the destruction of most all of Iran's military aviation which is going to make it very hard for the Ayatollahs to suppress any uprisings.

Had it not been for Colin Powell's decision to allow Saddam Hussein to use his helicopters to ruthlessly suppress Iraqi unrest, Saddam would have been gone from Iraq in less than a year.

The Israelis are not making that mistake in Iran.

Everyone laughs at the air forces of third world dictatorships like North Korea that still fly Korean War era MiG 15s but they don't realize that the MiG 15 fighters are not there to protect the North Korean people from South Korean F-16s, they are there to protect Little Kim from the North Korean people.

If the Iranian people finally try to rise up against the Revolutionary Guards, the guards are now very poorly armed to resist and their leadership is seriously reduced.

20 posted on 06/25/2025 8:18:17 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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