Newsman: The president of Israel Isaac Herzog said that the United States is acting in its own interests and declined to say whether Israel would need additional resources.
Isaac Herzog said in an interview on CNN Sunday morning.
“We are not dragging America into a war, and we are leaving aid to the decision of the president of the United States and to the team.”
President Herzog said the U.S. decision to bomb Iran was made “because the Iranian nuclear program was (a) clear and present danger to the security interests of the free world, and the United States is the leader of the free world.”
“We are leaving it to the decision of the head of, the president of the United States and his team, because it had to do with America’s national security interest, period,” he said Sunday. We are not intending and we don’t ask for America now to go to war because the Iranians are threatening Israel. The decision was taken because the Iranian nuclear program was a clear and present danger to the security interests of all of the free world.”
Despite Trump claiming in an address to the nation Saturday night that Iran’s nuclear sites had been “completely and totally obliterated,” Herzog told host Kasie Hunt he could not say whether this was the case, instead claiming that the sites had been “hit very hard, both by the Israeli attacks and absolutely by the American attack overnight.”
President Herzog also said that while Israel was not actively working toward a regime change in Iran, it would be a “very blessed” outcome.
“After all, this regime is a very oppressive regime,” he said.
Israel’s President Herzog reminded Hunt that he is the head of state in Israel, but noted that his authority was limited; it is the Israeli Security Cabinet led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that oversees war planning. He said he did not know the “exact details” of communication between Trump and Netanyahu, but that there was “a very close and intimate dialogue” between the two.
