On Saturday, November 23, Netanyahu said in a video message he published on X, referring to his recent meeting with Gadi Eisenkot and the need to establish a national unity government in Israel: "The Iranian regime, which strives to destroy Israel, is trying again to renew its nuclear program."
He added: "This criminal regime, which did not hesitate to kill thousands of its own people, will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons against us. As soon as he can return to enriching uranium and developing nuclear weapons, he will do so."
"We really need to do everything we can to continue to prevent this," Netanyahu said. As we did in operations "Rising Lion" and "Roaring Lions" when we removed the immediate threat of annihilation.
Addressing "my brothers and sisters," he said, "we must remove this existential threat once and for all."