Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu w/ Chris Wallace (FULL INTERVIEW) - Fox News Sunday

Appearing with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Prime Minister Netanyahu talks about:

1. The Colorado movie theater massacre (note the irony in him saying how America has always stood behind Israel when it was attacked by terrorists in light of Obama and Clinton excluding Israel from the counterterrorism forum).

2. Syria, and especially its weapons of mass destruction, and whether Israel will have to deal with the problem.

3. The terror bombing in Bulgaria, for which Netanyahu blames Hezbullah and Iran.

4. Iranian terror attacks over the last two years.

5. Iran's nuclear program.

6. Mitt Romney (about whom he avoided talking).

7. Arab Spring.

This is a very comprehensive interview for 15 minutes. It's worth your time to watch.

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Gloating Ahmadinejad hints at Iranian responsibility for Burgas terror attackIsrael has suffered ‘a response’ far greater than its ‘blows against Iran,’ says president

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gloated publicly on Thursday over the deaths of Israelis in a terror bombing in Bulgaria, and hinted that Iran was responsible for the attack.

Speaking hours after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had publicly blamed the bombing Wednesday at Bulgaria’s Burgas airport on “Hezbollah, directed by Iran,” Ahmadinejad described the attack as “a response” to Israeli “blows against Iran.”

“The bitter enemies of the Iranian people and the Islamic Revolution have recruited most of their forces in order to harm us,” he said in a speech reported by Israel’s Channel 2 TV. “They have indeed succeeded in inflicting blows upon us more than once, but have been rewarded with a far stronger response.”

He added: “The enemy believes it can achieve its aims in a long, persistent struggle against the Iranian people, but in the end it will not. We are working to ensure that.

Ahmadinejad’s speech was interpreted in Israel as asserting that the Burgas bombing was a revenge attack for the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists, for which Iran has repeatedly blamed Israel.

His remarks contrasted with a condemnation of the Burgas bombing by the Iranian Foreign Ministry earlier Thursday.

“The Islamic republic, the biggest victim of terrorism, believes terrorism endangers the lives of innocents… is inhumane and so strongly condemns” it, the Arabic-language television channel Al-Alam cited foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast as saying. “Iran’s position is to condemn all terrorist acts in the world,” he added.

Earlier in the day, Iran’s state TV rejected accusations of Tehran’s involvement in the attack.

A commentary on the TV website called the claims by Netanyahu and others “ridiculous” and “sensational.”

The website described the Israeli charges as attempts to discredit Iran and its allies such as Syria.

Tehran’s mission in Sofia issued a statement saying that “the unfounded statements by different statesmen of the Zionist regime in connection with the accusations against Iran about its possible participation in the incident with the blown-up bus with Israeli tourists in Burgas is a familiar method of the Zionist regime, with a political aim, and is a sign of the weakness … of the accusers.”

The bombing is the latest in a string of attacks and plots around the world that Israel has blamed on Iran.

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Yesterday's terror attack on an Israeli tour bus in Bulgaria could lead to war.

The bomb killed at least six and wounded 32 others. Israeli officials quickly accused Iran and its Lebanese terror arm, Hezbollah, of the attack.

“Only in the last two months, we have seen attempts to hurt Israelis in Thailand, India, Georgia, Kenya, Cyprus and other places,” noted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“This is an Iranian terror offensive that is spreading throughout the world,” he continued. And: “Israel will react strongly.” He promised reprisals against Hezbollah, but if it becomes clear that Iranian agents played a role in the attack, action against the Tehran regime may also be on the table.

Israeli analysts likened Iran and Hezbollah to cornered animals, so desperate has their strategic situation grown.

Iran’s ally, the Syrian government of Hafez Assad, is in danger of collapse. At nearly the same time as the Bulgarian attack, Syrian rebels succeeded in killing some of the leading members of the regime at Syrian army headquarters in Damascas. Three top general were killed, including Assif Shawkat, Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law, the head of Syrian military intelligence.

But Israeli officials said the world had to step up the isolation of Iran. “The world has to step up crippling sanctions against Iran, and not just because of its nuclear program,” declared Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. He said Israel will demand suspension of civilian airline flights in and out of Iran.

“This is a very serious attack, and for a long time we have been following the intentions of Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran and Islamic Jihad to prosecute an attack,” said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

Israeli officials said that they’d warned Bulgarian officials that Israel had intelligence information that Iran and Hezbollah have been trying to infiltrate agents into Bulgaria from Turkey.

Some witnesses said a suicide bomber got on the tour bus inside the pickup area at the airport of Bulgaria’s chief tourist city, Burgas (several hundred miles from Sophia, the capital), but other reports spoke of an explosion caused by a bomb hidden inside a suitcase.

“We have decided immediately to reinforce the defenses of the Israeli embassy,” said Arthur Kol, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman.

The bombing came on the 18th anniversary of the Iranian-Hezbollah attack on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85.

Hezbollah and Iran have been concentrating on generally “soft” targets away from Israel for two reasons: They’re easier to hit than targets in Israel, and they make it harder for Israel to justify a direct reprisal on Iran or Hezbollah.

Israeli strategists also believe that Iran and Hezbollah are using the attacks to force Israel to lose its focus on Iran itself and/or to force Israeli tactical or political errors, undermining Israel’s drive to stop Iran’s nuclear program.

A single attack of this kind is highly unlikely to start a war on Israel’s northern border or spur a massive assault by Israel on Iran — but Israeli intelligence believes there are more Iranian-directed terror squads trying to attack Israelis.

If several attacks succeed simultaneously — as almost occurred several months ago — or if one attack results in many deaths, Israel might make a strong reprisal, say on Hezbollah’s vast armed camps in southern Lebanaon.

And that could escalate into a wider war.