Alan Dershowitz says Iran will never develop a nuclear weapon because "Israel will do whatever it has to do to stop it."
"After all, the head of Iran a few years ago said, 'If we develop a nuclear bomb and bomb Tel Aviv, that'll be the end of Israel, because it's a one-bomb state," Dershowitz told Newsmax TV's "American Agenda." "Even if they retaliate and kill 20 million Muslims in Tehran, he said the tradeoff would be worth it because it would wipe out the Jewish state and Islam would still be around.
"For a country comprised of Holocaust survivors, they're not going to accept a nuclear-armed Iran, and I hope the United States will back them and support them if they take whatever actions are necessary – military, diplomatic, cyber, whatever, to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. It is absolutely unacceptable for a country that has sworn to use it to destroy another country to have nuclear weapons."
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday said Israel is still keeping open the possibility of taking action against Iran's nuclear project.
"Israel has a clear objective: that Iran not be nuclear; it is not just an Israeli interest," Gantz said in an interview with an Egyptian television outlet broadcast. "It is first and foremost a global and regional interest.
"The IDF and Israel's defense establishment are holding on to the option of taking action against Iran's nuclear project if that is what has to be done," he said, according to quotes from the interview provided by his office. "I hope it doesn't come to that."
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