Here's What We Achieved
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, giving what sounds like a victory speech, saying the U.S. and Israel succeeded at "shattering Iran's terror axis" and "created the conditions for the future fall" of the Islamic Republic "We prevented Iran from carrying out a plan to annihilate us," he said. "Had we not acted... Iran would have had atomic bombs. And let me tell you something -- they would have used them. That's what we prevented." Here is Netanyahu's full speech on Sunday: His full comments: BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Today I want to begin with a simple question: What have we achieved? Because these same people and their cronies in the press are trying to diminish our achievements. In fact, they're trying to erase them completely. So what is it that we achieved? Here's what we achieved: We prevented Iran from carrying out a plan to annihilate us. And today, they would have had a nuclear weapon, an atomic bomb to do so. We prevented that from happening. We removed an existential danger. And had we not acted, had we not acted in Operation Rising Lion and then in Operation Roaring Lion, Iran would have had atomic bombs. And let me tell you something: They would have used them. That's what we prevented. Together with our American friends, the American Air Force, the American military, we carried out the largest air strike in our history. We destroyed Iran's nuclear infrastructure. We knocked out 20 of their top nuclear scientists, and when you take out the scientists, it's very hard to make a nuclear weapon. We decapitated the leadership of the terror regime. We shattered their missile industry. We knocked out their navy. We knocked out their air force. We attacked their military industries. We attacked their bridges. We attacked so many targets that the cumulative damage that we did to the IRGC economy is not counted in the millions, it's counted in hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, a
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