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Source: Middle
East Eye (published on 16 June 2025); full interview available here.
The following video, which was published a day later, is a compilation of statements by Netanyahu that should demonstrate that destroying Iran has indeed been an obsession of Netanyahu given that such statements of his were made in front of cameras:
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In 2007, in an interview he gave to Amy
Goodman of Democracy Now!, General Wesley Clark, then a
retired four-star general who had been the Supreme Allied Commander of
NATO during the Kosovo War and an unsuccessful US presidential
candidate, revealed that in 2001 he had been told that Iran was the
final country on the list of countries earmarked by the Pentagon for
regime change:
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Lausanne, the above was published on the eighth day of the third month of the year two thousand and twenty-six.
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[...]
So I came back to see him a few weeks later and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, ‘Are we still going to war with Iraq?’ And he said, ‘Oh, it’s worse than that.’ He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, ‘I just got this down from upstairs’ – meaning the Secretary of Defence’s office – ‘today’. And he said, ‘This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.’ I said, ‘Is it classified?’ He said, ‘Yes, sir.’ I said, ‘Well, don’t show it to me.’ And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, ‘You remember that?’ He said, ‘Sir, I didn’t show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!’
[...]
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/3/2/gen_wesley_clark_weighs_presidential_bid
So I came back to see him a few weeks later and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, ‘Are we still going to war with Iraq?’ And he said, ‘Oh, it’s worse than that.’ He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, ‘I just got this down from upstairs’ – meaning the Secretary of Defence’s office – ‘today’. And he said, ‘This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.’ I said, ‘Is it classified?’ He said, ‘Yes, sir.’ I said, ‘Well, don’t show it to me.’ And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, ‘You remember that?’ He said, ‘Sir, I didn’t show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!’
[...]
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/3/2/gen_wesley_clark_weighs_presidential_bid
Finally, there is what Netanyahu said in
2017 when he had an official meeting with Putin in Moscow as part of
an official visit to the Kremlin. During the discussion on Iran,
Netanyahu referenced the ancient Purim story, claiming Persia (modern
Iran’s predecessor) made ‘an attempt to destroy the Jewish people
that did not succeed’ nearly 2,500 years ago and that ‘today
there is an attempt by Persia’s heir, Iran, to destroy the state of
the Jews’.
Putin rejected framing current Iran policy through that ancient animosity, replying that those events took place ‘in the fifth century BC’ and that ‘we now live in a different world’, then suggested focusing on actual up-to-date regional problems instead.
Putin rejected framing current Iran policy through that ancient animosity, replying that those events took place ‘in the fifth century BC’ and that ‘we now live in a different world’, then suggested focusing on actual up-to-date regional problems instead.
Putin to Netanyahu: Don’t judge Iran by
5th century BC, we live in a different world
Published time: 9 Mar, 2017 22:48
Edited time: 10 Mar, 2017 13:10
https://www.rt.com/news/380061-putin-netanyahu-iran-israel-syria/
Published time: 9 Mar, 2017 22:48
Edited time: 10 Mar, 2017 13:10
https://www.rt.com/news/380061-putin-netanyahu-iran-israel-syria/
A later RT article from December 2017
briefly recaps the same exchange for context: https://www.rt.com/news/412791-netanyahu-bible-israel-jerusalem/
As the above should have demonstrated,
the current war against Iran has been a long time in the making as
well as one of Netanyahu’s two main obsessions – the other one being
the destruction of the Palestinian people. Let us hope that he
succeeds in neither!
Lausanne, the above was published on the eighth day of the third month of the year two thousand and twenty-six.