Netanyahu Highlights Differences with Trump on Iran Policy

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his differences with the US President Donald Trump, saying that there were times when the two cannot see "eye to eye".

The public fallout between the two was visible during the Iran war, especially when the US president was attempting to make a peace deal with Tehran and Israel's continued aggression against Lebanon prevented it.

“Many times we see eye to eye, and there are also cases in which we see less eye to eye. I am responsible for Israel’s security interests. I stand up for them,” Times of Israel quoted Netanyahu saying.

He also stated that the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran had spared his country from what he called the Islamic Republic’s threat of “nuclear annihilation.”

"The most important thing is that we saved the State of Israel from the threat of nuclear annihilation," Netanyahu said.

"And what would that mean? It would mean that millions of Israeli citizens -- you who are hearing me now -- all of you would have been in terrible danger of mass death... And we have pushed away from us, for years, this danger of the annihilation of Israel's population," he added.

Netanyahu vowed that Iran would never be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons, irrespective of the terms of any agreement.

"With an agreement or without one, Iran will not have nuclear weapons," he said.

"I made no mistake at all... We said we wanted to remove an existential threat hanging over us: first, the nuclear threat -- and we did that, second the missile threat -- and we did that," he added.

Netanyahu made his first public remarks since the States and Iran announced a deal earlier this week to end the Middle East war.