Netanyahu insists Israel will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons: office

"Prime Minister Netanyahu has been leading the global campaign against Iran's nuclear programme for over a decade, even when some dismissed the threat and referred to it as a 'political spin' and called the prime minister 'paranoid,'" his office said. While Netanyahu has been pushing the US to also take firmer action, a report in the New York Times on Wednesday said Trump had scuppered an Israeli plan to strike Iran's nuclear sites. The Kremlin said Wednesday that Russia was ready to do "everything" in its powers to help find a diplomatic resolution to the stand-off between the United States and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme.