Benjamin Netanyahu

So assume that we we did have them at the table.

What in the world do you think it is that we could offer them to persuade them, to convince them, to scare them or whatever it is for Iran to step down on a nuclear weapon development?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the goal of the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes is to quote, remove the existential threat posed by the terrorist regime in Iran.

Netanyahu said in a video, our joint action will create the conditions for the brave Iranian people to take their destiny into their own hands.

President Trump addressed Iranians in a video saying, bombs will be dropping everywhere.

When we are finished, take over your government.

A person briefed on the operation told NPR it was expected to last a few days, with Israel's military focusing on targeting Iran's missile program.

Sirens are wailing in Israel, warning people to stay in shelters.

Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

Now they're well into the second stage.

And by next spring at most by next summer at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage from there.

It's only a few months, possibly a few weeks.

before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.

No, the issue is not

The issue is not – first of all, are there other nations that are developing nuclear weapons?

Yes.

First let me say what they are, and then let me make a suggestion on how to proceed.

Thank you.

The answer is categorically yes.

The two nations that are vying, competing with each other, who will be the first to achieve nuclear weapons is Iraq and Iran.