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00:00For more, we can cross to former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, a member of the opposition.
00:09Thank you for being with us here on France 24.
00:13Is Israel at war with Iran?
00:17Israel is taking out Iran's nuclear program and Iran's ballistic missile program.
00:23We're doing this 30 years after Iran embarked on this and killed many, many Israelis, many Europeans, Americans all across the world.
00:36So, yes, we are hitting Iran until we ensure that it has no more nuclear program.
00:44Do you consider this a war?
00:46This is a very different kind of confrontation as we saw with non-state actors like Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:55Well, Iran has waged war against Israel for decades now through proxies.
01:01So it's sort of this octopus who sends its arms all across the world to Madrid, to Buenos Aires, to America, to Lebanon, Gaza, you name it.
01:14And it's time that we hit the octopus on its head as opposed to just continue fighting its arms.
01:22So Iran started this, started this war years ago.
01:26Now it's time to end it.
01:29What's the next step in this?
01:31We heard the Israeli Prime Minister saying it's an operation that will take as many days as it takes.
01:39Is it a matter of days or is it something longer?
01:42As much time as we need.
01:45We're going to continue until we degrade and degrade the nuclear military program.
01:50I want to be very clear here.
01:53Iran has acquired enough highly enriched uranium for 10 nuclear warheads.
02:00There's no civilian use for that uranium, only for nuclear warheads.
02:04Iran has explicitly said, including just a month ago, its leader said that it wants to destroy Israel.
02:11Iran has been killing Israelis through Gaza, through Lebanon and Hezbollah, and all across the world.
02:18Now, enough is enough.
02:20We gave all the warnings in the world.
02:22We're going to continue until we're done with this.
02:25We'll see you