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Ink Club podcast. And tonight on Top Ink World News,
we actually got Israeli's ambassador to the United States, Michael Wright,
giving us an update on the attacks with Iran. Israeli,
let's get.
Speaker 2: Into this act. We are joined now in studio by
the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Lyder. Good morning, Ambassador,
give us the latest on last night's attack. Missiles seem
to be getting through. The Iranians claim they have a
maneuverable missile that's harder to detect.
Speaker 3: The Guardians have a large arsenal of ballistic missiles. We
have some good defense systems anti missile defense systems, but
they're not hermetically sealing the skies, so there's about ten
to fifteen percent of these ballistic missiles that get through.
We sustained significant attacks last night. We have over ten
fatalities and hundreds wounded.
Speaker 2: And Prime Minister Netanyah, who said what they have done
to Iran so far is nothing compared to what is coming.
Tell us what you can about that. And is Iran's
supreme leader off the target list.
Speaker 3: I think it's fair to say that nobody who's threatening
the destruction of Israel should be off the target list,
but we're not going to discuss specific individuals online. The
idea is to neutralize and terminate the Iranian intention of
destroying Israel through nuclear weapons and through ballistic missiles, and
anybody who gets to the way of that or who
is actually advancing that cause of destroying Israel is obviously
somebody we're gonna have to deal with.
Speaker 2: That's a very big list. Obviously, you hit some generals,
you hit nuclear scientists.
Speaker 3: Well, we hit the top of the line in terms
of the generals, the RGC and the army. They're in
a bit of chaos now there is a breakdown the
chain of command.
Speaker 2: But we have more coming.
Speaker 3: And do you.
Speaker 2: Believe these strikes have significantly set back the nuclear program?
That was the reason you went after Iran. Has the
nuclear program been set back? There are those who are
skeptical that it has not, including former Israeli Prime Minister
a who Barak. He said Israel cannot delay Iran's nuclear
program by a significant time period.
Speaker 3: Well, he was prime minister many years ago for a
short time. I don't think he's privy today today Intel
that we have. Yes, we've set them back dramatically, but
not enough. And that's why this series of strikes is
not going to end today or tomorrow, but only at
a period of time which may take weeks, when we
are absolutely certain that the nuclear infrastructure with the intention
of of weaponizing and threatening Israel is terminated.
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about four Dough. It's deepened the mountain side.
There are those who do not believe you can destroy
four Dough without US help, and those bunk or busting bombs.
Is it possible without us help?
Speaker 3: The help that we've asked from the United States is
confined to defensive posture. We're very, very thankful to President
Trump and the Administration for the FAD missile anti Missile
Defense System, for the AEGEUS Missile Defense System. But it's
only in a defensive posture. We have a number of
contingencies which will enable us to deal with four do
not everything is a matter of you know, taking to
the skies and bombing from Afar. But you're certain, we're certain,
we're certain that we can set back the nuclear weapons
system development with in Iran for a very very long time.
Speaker 2: How do you avoid this war escalating? The President saying
overnight that if Iran hits the US assets, they will
feel full force of the US military. How do you contain.
Speaker 3: This war, Martha. The objective is not to contain the war.
The objective is to win the war. Looked, eighty years ago,
we had a little man with a mustache running around
Europe that nobody believed him when he said he's going
to destroy the Jewish people. We lost six million. Now
we've got a crazed new Hitler running around the Middle
East saying he's going to destroy us. We have to
take him at face value. That's his intention. He says
it every day. He's got a concrete plan to destroy us.
This isn't a joke. This is very serious for us.
It's existential.
Speaker 2: The US was in the middle of negotiations. President Trump
talked about that he did not want you to take
action while these negotiations were going on. He said, overnight,
we can still easily get a deal done between Iran
and Israel and end this bloody conflict. Is that true?
Speaker 3: Do you want to Friday morning, the President was actually
quite gradual over our initial strikes, and he did write
clearly that he knew about our intentions. So look if
the president, but.
Speaker 2: What does that mean, because he said he doesn't want you.
Speaker 3: To strike, Well, no, actually he was congratulatory about our strike.
He wants he wants the nuclear program in Iran to
be halted in its entirety. He said it very clearly.
Dismantle the centrifuges, dismantle the infrastructure, and stop in total
the enrichment of uranium. So if that can be achieved
through negotiation, so be, it will be very happy.
Speaker 2: But it hasn't been.
Speaker 3: And it was actually on the sixty first day after
the President gave him sixty days that we struck.
Speaker 2: If you don't reach a deal, what is the exit
strategy here? What is the endgame? It will not stop
until the nuclear program is completely destroyed.
Speaker 3: The nuclear program and the ballistic missile program. The missiles
that they're firing into Israel now are ballistic missiles with
a tremendous payload. They create tremendous damage. And as a
matter of fact, the Supreme Leader of Iran has said
repeatedly that if he fires thousands of ballistic missiles into Israel,
we're a small country and there's nothing we can do
other than die. Well, we're not gonna die. We're not
going to allow these ballistic missiles to continue to hit Israel,
and we're gonna do what we have to do to
defend our country.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for joining us this morning, mister investment to
be with you.
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