Iran war ‘not over’, uranium must be removed, Israel’s Netanyahu says
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“Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium must be “taken out” before the US-Israeli war against Iran can be considered over, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview on Sunday.”
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Multiple independent sources, including CBS News and Al Jazeera, report that Prime Minister Netanyahu stated the war with Iran is 'not over' until highly enriched uranium is removed from the country.
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— On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
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— Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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— Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2…
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““It’s not over, because there’s still nuclear material – enriched uranium – that has to be taken out of Iran. There’s still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled,” Netanyahu said in an excerpt of an interview due to air later Sunday on CBS’s 60 Minutes programme.”
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The specific quote regarding nuclear material and the dismantling of enrichment sites is explicitly reported by both CBS News and The New York Times as part of a '60 Minutes' interview.
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— CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS headquartered in New York City. Along with ABC News and NBC News, it has long been among the big three broadcast news…
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“Netanyahu said that US President Donald Trump had a similar position.”
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While there is evidence of coordination and meetings between Netanyahu and Trump regarding Iran, the provided evidence does not explicitly confirm that Netanyahu stated Trump shares this specific position on the removal of nuclear material in the context of the interview.
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— Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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— On 8 April 2026, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in the 2026 Iran war, mediated by Pakistan. Iran had rejected the draft proposal for a 45-day two-phased ceasefire framework …
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— During the 2026 Iran war, the United States and Israel have sought strategies aimed at regime change in the Islamic Republic of Iran, seeking to destabilize or overthrow the government through militar…
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““I’m not going to talk about military means, but the president, what President Trump has said to me – ‘I want to go in there.’””
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The provided evidence includes general statements by Trump and Netanyahu regarding Iran, but none of the search results or Wikipedia entries contain the specific quote 'I want to go in there' attributed to Trump in this context.
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— Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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— On 8 April 2026, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in the 2026 Iran war, mediated by Pakistan. Iran had rejected the draft proposal for a 45-day two-phased ceasefire framework …
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— During the 2026 Iran war, the United States and Israel have sought strategies aimed at regime change in the Islamic Republic of Iran, seeking to destabilize or overthrow the government through militar…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime_change_efforts_in_the_2…
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