PM Netanyahu Interviewed on CBS's "Face the Nation"
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed this afternoon (Sunday, 16
November 2014) on the CBS program "Face the Nation" and made the following
remarks:

"Iran is not your ally. Iran is not your friend. Iran is your enemy. It's
not your partner. Iran is committed to the destruction of Israel, just as
the P5+1, the United States and the world powers are negotiating with Iran a
nuclear agreement, the Ayatollah Khamenei, the ruler of Iran, calls for the
annihilation of Israel. He just did that four days ago. He specified nine
ways and reasons by which Israel should be destroyed. He's participated in
rallies and chants of 'Death to America', 'Death to Israel'. This is not a
friend, neither in the battle against ISIS nor in the effort, the great
effort that should be made to deprive him [of] the capacity to make nuclear
weapons. Don't fall for Iran's ruse. They are not your friend."

Prime Minister Netanyahu added:

"Basically the Middle East is awash with militant Islamists, the militant
Islamists led by al-Qaeda and ISIS on the Sunni side, the militant Islamists
led by Iran and Hezbollah on the Shiite side. We want both of them to lose.
The last thing we want is to have any one of them get weapons of mass
destruction. Look at what ISIS is doing now with assault rifles and pick-up
trucks. Just imagine what Iran would do if it had nuclear weapons. So both
our enemies are fighting one another and when they are, weaken both – don't
strengthen either one."