Benjamin Netanyahu Says 'We Have To Make Sure That Iran Does Not Have Nuclear Weapons' As U.S. Talks Commence

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In a meeting in the Oval Office on Monday, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Iran.

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00:00Mr. President, what about the hostages of you?

00:03Well, I didn't finish, I'm going to begin.

00:08We spoke about not only the hostages, but about Gaza.

00:13The hostages obviously is a human story of just unbearable agony.

00:20I speak to the families, I spoke to them yesterday,

00:23I spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here,

00:26I speak to them every day, they're in agony.

00:30The hostages are in agony, and we want to get them all out.

00:34Steve Whitcoff, President Trump's very able representative,

00:38helped us get a deal that got 25 out.

00:40We're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed.

00:44And we're committed to getting all the hostages out,

00:47but also eliminating the evil tyranny of Hamas in Gaza,

00:53and enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want.

00:59I mean, they should have that choice.

01:01And the President put forward a vision, a bold vision, which we discussed as well,

01:06including the countries that might be amenable and are amenable to accepting Palestinians of their free choice

01:15if they choose to go there.

01:17And I think that's the second thing that we discussed.

01:20But the hostages came right on top.

01:23We also discussed the situation in Syria.

01:29We have had neighborly relations with Turkey that have deteriorated,

01:34and we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone, including Turkey, as a base for attack in Israel.

01:40Turkey is a country that has a great relationship with the United States.

01:47The President has a relationship with the leader of Turkey.

01:50We discussed how we can avoid this conflict in a variety of ways,

01:55and I think we can't have a better interlocutor than the President of the United States for this purpose.

02:02And, of course, we also discussed Iran.

02:04Look, we're both united in the goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons.

02:10If it could be done diplomatically in a full way, the way it was done in Libya,

02:14I think that would be a good thing.

02:16But whatever happens, we have to make sure.

Benjamin Netanyahu Says 'We Have To Make Sure That Iran Does Not Have Nuclear Weapons' As U.S. Talks Commence

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