As the attacks escalate, with fatalities and injuries reported on both sides, Israel issued the stark warning to Iran.

Netanyahu reveals Iran attempted to assassinate both him and Trump, discusses Israel's strikes against Iran's nuclear program, and explains the "imminent threat."

During his second government, between 2009 and 2013, he tried at least twice to launch attacks against Iran’s nuclear programme but was stymied. He faced a series of obstacles. His generals and security chiefs opposed such a move.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Iranian people directly after Iran launched retaliatory missiles at Tel Aviv. Former Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren joins Christina Ruffini to share his reaction and provide more insight on the Middle East.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Iranian people on Friday, June 13 following a ballistic missile attack on the country. (GPO)

In one of the early press conferences after October 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked whether he would resign. His answer was telling: No one asked US President Franklin D. Roosevelt to resign after Pearl Harbor.

What began with Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and other targets on June 13, 2025 has now spiraled into the world’s first full-scale example of what I as an expert in nuclear security call a “threshold war” – a new and terrifying form of conflict where a nuclear weapons power seeks to use force to prevent an enemy on the verge of nuclearization from making that jump.

President Donald Trump vetoed a plan presented to the U.S. in recent days to kill Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter