{"id":303780,"date":"2025-02-18T08:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=303780"},"modified":"2025-02-20T07:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:21:02","slug":"netanyahu-vows-to-finish-the-job-against-iran-with-support-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=303780","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu vows to \u2018finish the job\u2019 against Iran with support from Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Eugenia Yosef, Ibrahim Dahman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/irene-nasser\">Irene Nasser<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/jennifer-hansler\">Jennifer Hansler<\/a> and Mostafa Salem \u2013 CNN Feb 17, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to \u201cfinish the job\u201d against Iran with the support of US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu was speaking alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is visiting Israel in his first official trip to the region since assuming the role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last 16 months, Israel has dealt a mighty blow to Iran\u2019s terror axis. Under the strong leadership of President Trump\u2026 I have no doubt that we can and will finish the job,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio said that there \u201ccould never be a nuclear Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to constantly point that whether we talk about Hamas or we talk about Hezbollah, we talk about violence in the West Bank, or we talk about destabilization in Syria, or we talk about any of these issues the militias in Iraq, they all have behind them one common theme \u2013 Iran,\u201d Rubio added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat must be addressed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>US intelligence agencies recently warned both the Biden and Trump administrations that Israel will likely attempt to strike facilities key to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/22\/world\/iran-iaea-centrifuges-censure-intl-hnk\/index.html\">Iran\u2019s nuclear program<\/a> this year, according to sources familiar with the assessments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/16\/middleeast\/heavy-bombs-israel-rubio-visit-intl\/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>US ships 1,600 MK-84 heavy bombs to Israel amid concerns of resurgent conflict<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Action On Armed Violence \u2013 Feb 16, 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A shipment of 1,600 MK-84 heavy munitions, each weighing 2,000 pounds, has arrived in Israel from the United States following a reversal of an arms freeze by the Trump administration. The delivery, which was swiftly transported to Israeli Air Force bases, is part of Washington\u2019s ongoing and uncritical military support for Israel, despite international concerns over civilian casualties in Gaza and the broader humanitarian impact of explosive weapons in populated areas.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz welcomed the shipment, calling it \u201ca significant asset for the Air Force and the IDF\u201d and thanked the US for its \u201cunwavering support of the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aoav.org.uk\/2025\/us-ships-1600-mk-84-heavy-bombs-to-israel-amid-concerns-of-resurgent-conflict\/\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netanyahu\u2019s vow to \u2019finish the job\u2019 coincides with the delivery to Israel of 1,600 heavy MK-84 bombs, following Trump\u2019s lifting of a heavy arms embargo imposed by the Biden administration. The munitions that would be ideal for use against Iran\u2019s nuclear sites    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":303782,"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-303780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/303780","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=303780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303781,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303780\/revisions\/303781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}