By Anthony Marcus for Eurasia Business News, March 19, 2026. Article no 2055
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just said Iran no longer can enrich uranium or make ballistic missiles.
Netanyahu dedicated a substantial part of his news conference to denying Israel pushed the United States into war.
“This canard that we dragged the United States into this is not just a canard, it’s ridiculous,” he said.
He recited a checklist of Iranian attacks and threats against America over the decades. He said Trump had told him more than a year ago: “Bibi, we’ve got to make sure that Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons.”
And he praised Trump for waging the war.
“The world owes a debt of deep indebtedness, deep indebtedness to President Trump for leading this effort to safeguard our future,” he said.
Israel has killed one senior Iranian leader after another in airstrikes as it seeks to topple the Islamic Republic. But its past experience of targeting senior militants shows the strategy has limits and can sometimes backfire.
What Israel has achieved
Israel, alongside the U.S., launched a surprise air campaign that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other top Iranian security figures and hit command centers, IRGC bases, and government facilities across much of Iran.
Repeated waves of strikes have damaged key parts of Iran’s nuclear and missile infrastructure, including underground sites like Natanz and missile arrays, air‑defense systems, and ammunition depots, sharply degrading Iran’s ability to project power in the short term.
Israel has retained air superiority over large parts of western Iran, kept most of its own critical infrastructure functioning, and continued “decapitation” strikes against senior Iranian officials such as Ali Larijani and other security chiefs.
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