Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran not to directly attack the Jewish state, as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Friday morning.
“If you strike us, we will strike you,” Netanyahu said.
“There is no place in Iran where the long arm of Israel can not reach,” Netanyahu said.
“Far from being lambs led to the slaughter, Israel will fight back,” Netanyahu said, adding, “We are winning.”
Netanyahu spoke to the plenum as his country is fighting a multi-front war against Iranian proxies, namely Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
He was greeted by loud applause from the Israeli delegation while the entire Iranian walked out as he strode to the podium.
Netanyahu explained that he had not wanted to come to the UN in the middle of those wars, but felt bound to so that he could speak Israel’s “truth” to the world.
Israel, he said, stands between “the curse of Iran or the blessing of a historic normalization between Arabs and Jews.”
He held up two maps, one showing what he described as Iran’s long aggressive arm and the other showing the regional potential of expanding Israeli-Arab ties. One map was titled “the curse,” and the other, “the blessing.”
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says he has told his British counterpart David Lammy that enablers of Israel are “legally” tasked to contain this regime in its aggression of Lebanon before it is “too late”.
The two chief diplomats held talks as the annual gathering of the UN General Assembly is underway in New York .
“In meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, I explicitly warned of disastrous consequences of the Israeli regime’s ongoing aggression against Lebanon. Israeli attacks must cease immediately to avoid unprecedented risk of all-out catastrophe in region,” Araghchi wrote on X.
The Iranian foreign minister added, “Israel’s supporters and enablers are legally and morally responsible to act before it is too late.”