Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran's leaders on Tuesday that Israel would strike back decisively if attacked, as US and Iranian strikes escalated to their highest intensity since the April ceasefire.
Benjamin Netanyahu © PMO
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran's leaders on Tuesday that Israel would strike back decisively if attacked, as US and Iranian strikes escalated to their highest intensity since the April ceasefire.
"I will say this to the leaders of Iran: Do not count on it being quiet if you attack us," Netanyahu said at the Negev Conference in Dimona, according to video released by his office.
"Do not count on a rerun. Because it will not be a rerun, and that was already powerful enough. This will be a different event, much more powerful."
He added that "the days when someone hurts us and we do not strike them back twofold are over," pointing to Israel's past operations against what he called Iran's "Axis of Evil" as a model for future retaliation.
The warning came as fighting between the United States and Iran intensified sharply this week, with several rounds of American strikes on Iranian military sites and retaliatory Iranian attacks on US allies across the Gulf, straining the ceasefire reached in April to unprecedented levels.
The Israeli military said it had begun targeted strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday in response to a "Hezbollah violation", a day after the latest round of U.S.-facilitated talks between Israel and Lebanon took place in Rome.
A proposed deal between Iran and Oman would give Tehran control over ships entering the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian source and two regional officials told Reuters on Wednesday, in one of the biggest concessions yet to Iran.
The U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday it had removed counter-terrorism sanctions from Iraq's Fly Baghdad Airlines and two aircraft that were imposed in 2024 over links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, citing changes in the airline's behavior.
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