Netanyahu reveals Iran marked Trump as 'enemy number one' with assassination plot

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed successful his archetypal interrogation since Israel launched its blistering attacks connected Iran that the country's Islamic authorities had pinpointed President Donald Trump arsenic a menace to its atomic programme and actively worked to assassinate him.

"They privation to termination him. He's force fig one. He's a decisive leader. He ne'er took the way that others took to effort to bargain with them successful a mode that is weak, giving them fundamentally a pathway to enrich uranium, which means a pathway to the bomb, padding it with billions and billions of dollars," the premier curate told Fox News' Bret Baier during a peculiar Sunday variation of "Special Report."

"He took up this fake statement and fundamentally tore it up. He killed Qasem Soleimani. He made it precise clear, including now, ‘You cannot person a atomic weapon, which means you cannot enrich uranium.’ He's been precise forceful, truthful for them, he's force fig one."

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the play furniture gathering astatine his bureau successful Jerusalem connected September 27, 2023.  (ABIR SULTAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Netanyahu revealed helium was besides a people of the authorities aft a rocket was fired into the chamber model of his home. He went connected to telephone himself Trump's "junior partner" successful threatening Iran's quality to weaponize atomic arms. 

Netanyahu said his state was facing an "imminent threat" of atomic demolition and was near with nary prime but to enactment aggressively successful the "12th hour."

"We were facing an imminent threat, a dual existential threat," helium said.

"One, the menace of Iran rushing to weaponize their enriched uranium to marque atomic bombs with a circumstantial and declared intent to destruct us. Second, a unreserved to summation their ballistic rocket arsenal to the capableness that they would person 3,600 weapons a year…. Within 3 years, 10,000 ballistic missiles, each 1 weighing a ton, coming successful astatine mach 6, close into our cities, arsenic you saw today… and past successful 26 years, 20,000 [missiles]. No state tin prolong that, and surely not a state the size of Israel, truthful we had to act."

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An detonation is seen during a rocket onslaught successful Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 13, 2025.  (AP Photo/Tomer Neuberg)

Netanyahu said, by doing so, Israel is not lone protecting itself but besides protecting the world.

Iran has since retaliated with a large-scale ballistic rocket onslaught connected Israeli cities, though galore of the projectiles were thwarted.

Netanyahu told Fox News helium believes Israel's violative measures person acceptable backmost the Iranian atomic programme "quite a bit," sharing his content that negotiations with the terrorism-sponsoring authorities were intelligibly "going nowhere."

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He besides said his state is prepared to bash immoderate is indispensable to destruct the atomic and ballistic rocket menace Iran poses to the world.

Netanyahu has described the operation, coined arsenic Operation Rising Lion, arsenic "one of the top subject operations successful history." Addressing the Iranian people, helium said they had been oppressed for 50 years by the aforesaid Islamic authorities that has agelong threatened to destruct the State of Israel.

An encore of Netanyahu's special interrogation with Bret Baier volition besides tally astatine 5 PM/ET connected Sunday.

Fox News Digital's David Rutz contributed to this report.