In an explosive interview with Fox News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that Iran’s ruling regime has long considered President Donald Trump their top enemy and actively worked to assassinate him. The revelation adds yet another volatile layer to the growing conflict between Israel and Iran, which has escalated dramatically in recent days.
“They want to kill him. He’s enemy number one,” Netanyahu told Fox’s Bret Baier on Sunday. “He’s a decisive leader. He never took the weak path that others chose, never handed them a path to enrich uranium padded with billions of dollars.”
The prime minister’s comments come amid a blistering wave of Israeli airstrikes on Iranian military and nuclear infrastructure. As of this weekend, Israel had confirmed eliminating at least 30 senior officials in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including commander Hossein Salami, who was reportedly taken out during a precision missile strike. Netanyahu himself has not been spared from Iranian targeting. According to the interview, a missile fired by Iranian forces struck his bedroom window in what appears to have been a direct assassination attempt.
This isn’t the first time Trump’s life has been under threat. Nearly a year ago, he survived what Israeli special operations veterans later described as a near-fatal assassination attempt—one they said was foiled by a last-second “critical, subtle movement.” That incident, believed to have been connected to Iran-backed operatives, was widely reported but has gained renewed relevance in light of Netanyahu’s confirmation.
According to Netanyahu, the urgency of the threat posed by Iran forced Israel to act unilaterally. “We were facing a dual existential threat,” he explained. “One: Iran enriching uranium to build nuclear weapons with the stated intent of annihilating Israel. Two: their rapidly expanding ballistic missile program.”
The prime minister detailed that Iran is on pace to produce 3,600 ballistic missiles annually—potentially growing to 10,000 within just a few years. Each of these missiles, weighing up to one ton and capable of traveling at Mach 6, could devastate Israeli cities in seconds. “No nation, especially one the size of Israel, can sustain such an onslaught,” he said.
Following the Israeli airstrikes, Iran has responded with a series of missile barrages targeting Israeli population centers. Millions of Israelis have sought shelter as air raid sirens echoed across the country, particularly in the north. While Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling defense systems have intercepted many of the projectiles, some have landed in Haifa and other urban areas.
Despite the ongoing attacks, Netanyahu made it clear that Israel’s mission is far from over. There remains, he said, one crucial nuclear facility still standing in Iran—a site that, if not neutralized, could allow Tehran to rebuild its bomb-making capabilities.
U.S. intelligence and military leaders are closely coordinating with Israel as tensions mount. While European leaders are calling for de-escalation, Netanyahu dismissed their approach as naïve. “We are not interested in war for the sake of war,” he said. “But we cannot sit by while Iran prepares our destruction.”
The Israeli leader emphasized his close relationship with President Trump, calling himself Trump’s “junior partner” in confronting Iran. “He understood from day one that Iran could not be reasoned with through appeasement. That’s why they fear him—and that’s why they want him gone.”
The war footing between Israel and Iran has now expanded beyond conventional battlefields and into political assassination plots and global strategic maneuvering. Netanyahu’s warning is clear: the threat is real, and the time to stop it is running out.
RedState will continue following developments in what has quickly become one of the most dangerous global flashpoints in decades.
