Tzipi Hotovely: Israel will dismantle Iranian threat

Israel won’t rule out strikes against Iranian nuclear capabilities

Iran launched missiles against Israel this week, and the world is waiting anxiously to see how Israel will respond. On the BBC this morning, Laura Kuenssberg asked Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely if Israel would rule out a strike against Iran’s nuclear capabilities, which President Biden opposes. Hotovely said Israel had no interest in being attacked by Iranian missiles, and they would ‘dismantle the threat’. Hotovely implied that Israel were considering going against the US president’s wishes, telling Kuenssberg that the world needed to prevent ‘this regime of terror’ in Iran from having nuclear abilities.

Masoumeh Ebtekar: Israel is ‘undermining every single international norm’

Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, former Iranian vice president Masoumeh Ebtekar suggested Hamas and Hezbollah were not terrorists but ‘resistance groups’, and accused the West of double standards in ignoring Israel’s breaching of international regulations. Kuenssberg asked if Ebtekar was suggesting the 7 October attacks were legitimate.