Netanyahu on Iran: We Appreciate U.S. Support, but Israel Ready to Defend Itself

October 11, 2019

Haaretz:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented publicly on Thursday about last month’s attack on Saudi oil facilities, which has been blamed on the Iranians. Iran, the prime minister said, “has crossed the line over and over in its audacity.”

Speaking during a ceremony held at Jerusalem’s Mt. Herzl national cemetery in memory of Israeli soldiers killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the prime minister said that Iran is “seeking to tighten its grip in Lebanon, in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen and in the Gaza Strip. It is incessantly arming itself, equipping its offshoots with dangerous weaponry, assaulting freedom of navigation in international shipping lanes. It has downed a large American unmanned aerial vehicle and carried out a blatant and unprecedented attack on oil fields in Saudi Arabia.”

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