{"id":191469,"date":"2019-07-13T06:29:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T06:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191469"},"modified":"2019-07-15T07:11:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:11:22","slug":"netanyahu-warns-iran-it-is-within-range-of-israeli-air-strikes-citing-iranian-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191469","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu warns Iran it is within range of Israeli air strikes, citing Iranian threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Reuters \u2013 July 9, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_168043\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/F-35-Adir-Israeli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168043\" class=\"wp-image-168043\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/F-35-Adir-Israeli-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli F-35. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned Iran on Tuesday that it is within range of Israeli air strikes, citing what he described as Iranian threats to destroy Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIran recently has been threatening Israel\u2019s destruction,\u201d Netanyahu said at an Israeli air force base, where he viewed a squadron of advanced U.S.-built F-35 warplanes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIt should remember that these planes can reach anywhere in the Middle East, including Iran, and certainly Syria,\u201d he said in a YouTube video clip filmed at the base, with an F-35 in the background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last week, a senior Iranian parliamentarian was quoted by the semi-official Mehr news agency as saying that if the United States attacked Iran, Israel would be destroyed in half an hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel has long said that every option is on the table in ensuring that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon, and has backed pledges to prevent Iranian military entrenchment in Syria by carrying out air strikes there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tehran denies seeking nuclear arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mideast-iran-israel\/netanyahu-warns-iran-it-is-within-range-of-israeli-air-strikes-citing-iranian-threats-idUSKCN1U41LC\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Iran vows &#8216;crushing response&#8217; to Netanyahu&#8217;s F-35 attack threat<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press TV \u2013 July 12, 2019<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Iran has vowed a \u201ccrushing response\u201d to any violation of the country\u2019s sovereignty after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to attack the Islamic Republic\u00a0with F-35 stealth fighter jets.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Any enemy which seeks to violate the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, be it at any level, will receive a decisive and crushing response it shall regret,&#8221;\u00a0Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir\u00a0Hatami\u00a0said Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Iranian defense minister singled out a recent comment from Netanyahu threatening\u00a0to attack Iran while speaking at Israel&#8217;s Nevatim airbase earlier this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2019\/07\/12\/600744\/Iran-F35-Israel\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belligerence in the increasingly hostile exchanges with Iran often comes from the West, in this case Israel. All of which suggests that conflict could soon be more than a war of words  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191485,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191469\/revisions\/191485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}