00:00More than 100 drones have been launched from Iranian territory towards Israel.
00:06This will take about seven hours to get into Israel.
00:09Probably it will be combined with the strike of ballistic missiles,
00:12like they did last April, or even more.
00:16We are in a situation that not only Iran has accumulated thousands of ballistic missiles,
00:21but it had a program to build 10,000 ballistic missiles in the next three years
00:26and 20,000 ballistic missiles in the next six years.
00:29So any country, not only Israel, but any country in the region, and actually in the world,
00:34would be under a threat of a radical regime that is equipped with thousands of ballistic missiles
00:41carrying one-ton payload, each that could even actually be armed with a nuclear weapon.
00:49We are defending ourselves, but by defending ourselves we are basically defending the world.
00:56There are unconfirmed reports that missile strike is imminent on Israel now.
01:02There is actually a confirmed report that more than 100 drones have been launched from Iranian territory towards Israel.
01:09This will take about seven hours to get into Israel.
01:12Probably it will be combined with the strike of ballistic missiles like they did last April, or even more.
01:19So we are in a situation that not only Iran has accumulated thousands of ballistic missiles, but it had a program.
01:26According to intelligence, we gathered it was corroborated by our allies to build 10,000 ballistic missiles in the next three years,
01:35and 20,000 ballistic missiles in the next six years.
01:38So any country, not only Israel, but any country in the region, and actually in the world,
01:43would be under a threat of a radical regime that is equipped with thousands of ballistic missiles carrying one-ton payload,
01:52for each that could even actually be armed with a nuclear weapon.
01:59We are defending ourselves, but by defending ourselves we are basically defending the world from this terrible regime
02:07that actually is committed to destroy us.
02:11Now, I talked about two aspects.
02:13There is also a third aspect of their plan to destroy us, and that is their proxy war.
02:17As you know, in the last 18 months, we have been dealing with attacks from Iranian proxies, like Hezbollah,
02:25that accumulated 150,000 missiles, like their militias in Iran, in Syria, in Yemen, etc., Hamas.
02:34So that proxy threat was mostly dealt with.
02:38And now we are dealing with the heart of the most dangerous program of weapons of mass destruction.
02:45So Operation Rising Lion, so this podcast, let's restrict that conversation because we have limited time with you.
02:52Ambassador, quick clarification on your opening statement.
02:55So the immediate intelligence you're saying is that Israel found out that a clandestine unit of the Iranian IRGC,
03:03or whichever the equivalent is over there that handles with tactical nuclear weapons,
03:08they were in the process of pairing a nuclear warhead with a ballistic missile?
03:12Yes.
03:13Which, then that is something that happened overnight, that you received this intelligence?
03:17No, this has been happening in the last few months, and we got to the conclusion that we cannot wait anymore,
03:24and we have to prepare the grounds.
03:25Look, the Iranians have been stalling for time for many years, okay?
03:28They have been conducting negotiations with the international community, and actually, as you know,
03:33they have been conducting negotiations with the United States in the last few months,
03:37and while doing that, they were arming a nuclear weapon.
03:41So we got to the conclusion, this is an Israeli operation, but we are fully coordinated with the United States,
03:47and the United States knows this information, and therefore took precautions, as you probably saw,
03:52of taking their personnel out of bases around the Middle East.
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