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Netanyahu: Iran Behind 80 Percent of Security Threats

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JERUSALEM, Israel – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says 80 percent of the threats to Israel's security can be traced to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Speaking Monday at a Foreign Ministry event marking the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Netanyahu said Hezbollah carried out the attack at the behest of its handler, Iran.

Two years later, another bomb attack at the AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina) building in Buenos Aires, which killed 87 and injured 100, was also traced to the Iranian regime.

In the 25 years since the embassy bombing, Israel has grown stronger, he said, and is galvanizing other countries to join the fight against the world's greatest state sponsor of terrorism.

Israel, Netanyahu said, will continue its fight against Iran's aggressive policies and its continuing threats to delete the Jewish nation-state from the map.

Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump called Netanyahu Monday for more discussion about the dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran and the need to join forces to prevent that eventuality.

In related news, Netanyahu says he will talk about the Iranian threat when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday in Moscow. That discussion will include Iran's growing influence in Syria and its continuing efforts to supply weapons to Hezbollah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, including long-range missiles, which puts Israeli population centers in its crosshairs.

In a veiled reference to airstrikes on weapons convoys traversing Syria en route to Lebanon, Netanyahu said the time has come to draw "thick and clear" red lines and that Israel would not hesitate to defend itself.

"Iran is the greatest generator of terrorism in the world," Netanyahu said. There's a need to fight this terrorism, he added

The Iranian regime "continues to threaten Israel with destruction," he said.

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From her perch high atop the mountains surrounding Jerusalem, Tzippe Barrow tries to provide a bird’s eye view of events unfolding in her country. Tzippe’s parents were born to Russian Jewish immigrants, who fled the czar’s pogroms to make a new life in America. As a teenager, Tzippe wanted to spend a summer in Israel, but her parents, sensing the very real possibility that she might want to live there, sent her and her sister to Switzerland instead. Twenty years later, the Lord opened the door to visit the ancient homeland of her people.