Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the war with Iran is “not over,” as the U.S. and Israel still aim to bring an end to Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
“There’s still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran,” he said in a taped interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that is set to air Sunday night. “There is still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled, there’s still proxies that Iran supports, there are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce ... there’s work to be done.”
Pressed for how the U.S. and Israel would remove the nuclear material, Netanyahu said: “You go in, and you take it out.”
Netanyahu’s comments come ahead of President Donald Trump’s expected trip to China later this week, where he’s expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The war and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran have spiked global energy costs and sharply raised gas prices in the U.S.
Washington and Tehran are trying to negotiate a peace deal through mediators in Pakistan, but the pact remains elusive.
