Netanyahu tells ABC that he will not rule out taking out the supreme leader of Iran Ali Khamenei

Netanyahu tells ABC that he will not rule out taking out the supreme leader of Iran Ali Khamenei

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told ABC News on Monday that aimed at the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, would end, would not increase, the continuous fight between Israel and Iran that exploded at the end of last week.

When ABC News, Washington’s correspondent, Washington’s correspondent, Jonathan Karl, about ABC News reports and other means of sale, Donald Trump, rejected an Israeli plan to kill Iran’s supreme leader, worried that the conflict would increase, Netanyahu said: “The conflict will not increase, the conflict will not end.”

“We have had half a century of conflict extended by this regime that terrifies everyone in the Middle East; it has bombarded Aramco’s oil fields in Saudi Arabia; it is spreading terrorism, subversion and sabotage everywhere,” said Netanyahu. “The ‘Forever War’ is what Iran wants, and they are taking us to the edge of nuclear war. In fact, what Israel is doing is avoiding this, ending this aggression, and we can only do it to face the forces of evil.”

When asked if Israel would go to the supreme leader, Netanyahu said Israel was “doing what we have to do.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with ABC News, June 16, 2025.

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“I will not go into the details, but we have pointed to their best nuclear scientists,” Netyahu said. “It is basically Hitler’s nuclear team.”

Netanyahu said it in the interest of the United States to support Israel, since it seeks to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program.

“Today, it’s Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, it’s New York. Look, I understand ‘America first’. I don’t understand ‘America Dead’. That is what these people want. They sing ‘death to America’. So we are doing something that is at the service of humanity, of humanity, and it is a battle of good against evil, it should, and it remains with good.

Israel’s prime minister also dismissed a Wall Street Journal report that Iran has indicated to the partners that he is trying to end hostilities and resume negotiations about his nuclear program.

“I am not surprised. I mean, they want to continue having these false talks in which they lie, they deceive, attack the United States. And, you know, we have a very solid intel,” he said. “They want to continue building their nuclear weapons and building their arsenal of mass ballistic missiles, which are shooting our people. They want to continue creating the two existential threats against Israel while talking. That will not happen.”

He was asked to respond to some Republicans opposed to the United States military support to Israel’s attacks against Iran, including commentator Tucker Carlson, Netanyahu said Iran is a “threat to everyone.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with ABC News, June 16, 2025.

ABC news

“We are not only fighting our enemy. We are fighting your enemy. For the love of God, they sing,” Death to Israel, death to the United States. “We are simply on his way. And this could soon reach the United States,” Netanyahu said.

In his Friday bulletin, Carlson wrote that “the United States should not participate at any level in a war with Iran. Without funds, without US weapons, without troops in the field”, and that the United States should let Israel ‘fight against their own wars’.

“We are taking the action. The United States is supporting us in defense. Deeply, deeply appreciated. But this is a threat to everyone,” said Netanyahu. “It is a threat to Israel; as I said, for our Arab neighbors; to Europe; to America. They sing ‘death to America’. However, it is: ‘This is not their business’?

“Sometimes you have to take a position against evil. And that is what the American people instinctively understand. Most of them, I have to say. And that is what President Trump understands. We cannot let that happen,” he added.

In a travel notice updated on Monday, the State Department seems to have classified all Israel and the West Bank as “Level 4: Do not travel”, its highest level of advice.

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