'The US should participate in the war against Iran,' Israel's Lapid says
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In an interview with FRANCE 24, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said the US "should participate" in the ongoing war between Israel and Iran. "President Trump is going to do what's best for the United States and I trust him to take the right measures," he said. Lapid, who is usually a staunch critic of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressed strong support for his rival's decision to attack Iran.
Lapid, who is leader of the opposition centrist Yesh Atid party, insisted that Israel"didn't declare war on Iran" and that "Iran declared war on Israel and the Jewish people decades ago".
"They were rushing into nuclear capabilities and they couldn't have those because it's an existential threat to Israel and to the world," he claimed, pushing back on the assertion that Iran was not actually building a nuclear weapon.
The Israeli opposition leader added that the Iranian regime was "oppressing" its citizens, and "should have been removed years ago by the Iranians, by not the Israelis".
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