(NewsNation) — Yechiel Leiter, Israeli ambassador to the United States, tells NewsNation that Israel will not stop until it has eliminated Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
Leiter joined “CUOMO” in the aftermath of Iranian airstrikes on Israel in response to Israel’s attacks on Thursday.
“This is not a day-or-two operation,” Leiter explained, referring to what’s to come.
“This is a week-or-two operation, perhaps a month-or-two operation, as long as it takes in order to eliminate, in total, the nuclear infrastructure of Iran and their ballistic missile program.”
On Friday, Iran retaliated with more than 100 drone strikes against Israel after it killed several senior Iranian leaders and hit some of its nuclear sites Thursday night.
Leiter said there were three reasons central to the timing of Thursday night’s attack on Iran: the first day beyond President Trump’s deadline for Iran to dismantle their weapons systems and uranium enrichment, the recently released International Atomic Energy Agency report and Israeli intel that Iran is “racing forward and using the negotiations in order to cover their sprint towards a nuclear bomb.”
Iran announced Friday it had pulled out of nuclear talks with the United States, suspending them until further notice.
“They are a death cult [and] have no respect whatsoever for human life,” Leiter added.