Prime Minister Netanyahu: “The reason Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons is because successive governments, under my prime ministership, have led successive actions — which I won’t discuss here in detail — that set them back about ten years from where they thought they’d be. Ten years ago, they already thought they’d have a nuclear arsenal. They don’t. We delayed them, but we didn’t stop them. 

They’ve moved very far on enrichment. They’re trying to move on weaponry. The question now is what to do. Happily, we have a president in Washington who’s committed, as he says — and as he said to me many times, including just recently — we can’t allow Iran to have nuclear weapons. And I said, I absolutely believe that. I’ve devoted a good chunk of my life to prevent that.

There are two ways to do it. One is to get a deal that would prevent them from doing that by dismantling their nuclear infrastructure. You have to dismantle their nuclear infrastructure. That means not just that they will not enrich uranium, but that they will not have the capacity to enrich uranium. Which means you destroy the centrifuges. You remove, of course, the nuclear material that they’ve already enriched. There are a few other things you have to do, but that’s the crux of it.

The real deal that works is a deal which removes Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.”