Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Iran had been building new nuclear weapon sites that would have been impossible to attack within months, creating urgency for strikes on the country, according to AFP.
“They started building new sites, new places, underground bunkers, that would make their ballistic missile programs and their atomic bomb programs immune within months,” Netanyahu told Fox News.
He added, “If no action was taken now, no action could be taken in the future.”
Netanyahu affirmed that the conflict triggered by US and Israeli strikes on Iran won't be “an endless war,” but could take time.
“You're not going to have an endless war,” the PM said. “This is going to be a quick and decisive action.”
He later clarified that the conflict “may take some time, but it's not going to take years.”
US President Donald Trump's said on Sunday he envisages a four-week military operation against Iran.
A day later, Trump said he had ordered the attack on Iran to thwart Tehran's nuclear development and a ballistic missile program that he said was growing rapidly.
