Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Wednesday that his country was not pursuing regime change in Iran, and its attack on Tehran was aimed at eliminating its nuclear capabilities.
Speaking to CNBC’s Dan Murphy, Herzog said that regime change was “not an official objective of ours,” and the goal was “to remove the Iranian nuclear program.”
Herzog, who accused Teheran of “cheating” and “rushing to the bomb,” added that a “change in [regime] can also bring peace in the region.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency in a statement on June 9 urged Iran to “fully cooperate” with the agency, or else it would “not be in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful.”
On June 13, Israel launched a series of airstrikes against Iran, targeting locations it said were related to the country’s nuclear program. Both sides have since been trading strikes.
