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Israeli Opposition Leader Yair Lapid Tells Parliament: The Iranians "Were Running for a Bomb"

(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Lorin Bell-Cross - Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid told Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday that he was in full agreement with Prime Minister Netanyahu on the need to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. "I saw the intelligence; we were facing an existential threat. I supported the goals of the operation," he said. Lapid said that Iran's increased defense manufacturing "would have allowed them to have more ballistic missiles than Russia in less than two years. We have hit all this, and it is a good thing. The world is a safer place than it was 12 days ago....Not only were they enriching uranium, not only had they developed the next generation of centrifuges...they were running for a bomb." Questioned by Labour MP Alex Ballinger about whether the action was legal, Lapid retorted: "What is the committee's position on an atomic bomb exploding in Israel in terms of international law?...We saw the intelligence that tells us that Iran is rushing to a bomb and international law can't do anything about it." "The Iranians...are talking about two sides of an equation, while there are no two sides of an equation. This is a regime we have no problem with that says they want to kill all the Jews because they're Jews, because this is the deep, radical twisted version of Islam." Lapid said that any future agreement had to have five basic conditions: no uranium enrichment inside Iran, no centrifuges, all enriched uranium has to be deposited outside of Iran, no ballistic missile program, and unlimited supervision. Lapid added, "In order to discuss the two-state solution, the Palestinians have to prove to us that this doesn't become the base of the next attack against the Israeli people, against the innocent women and children who were attacked on October 7."
2025-06-26 00:00:00
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