{"id":54532,"date":"2025-06-17T18:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/we-re-doing-the-world-a-favor-israel-s-ambassador-to-rwanda-on-the-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:40:00","slug":"we-re-doing-the-world-a-favor-israel-s-ambassador-to-rwanda-on-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/we-re-doing-the-world-a-favor-israel-s-ambassador-to-rwanda-on-the-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re doing the world a favor\u2019: Israel\u2019s Ambassador to Rwanda on the fight against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

He made the disclosure during a virtual press briefing on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. <\/p>\n

\u201cIran is the biggest terror proliferator,\u201d she stated, accusing the regime of targeting Israeli civilians with attacks that killed, injured many, and left countless traumatized. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people whose homes are destroyed,\u201d she added, emphasizing the human toll beyond mere numbers.<\/p>\n

Weiss highlighted Israel\u2019s \u201cvery well audited\u201d strikes on Iran\u2019s nuclear sites, like Natanz, which she said have damaged uranium enrichment facilities and eliminated key experts. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing the whole world a favor,\u201d she asserted, noting that a nuclear Iran threatens not just Israel but global stability, potentially disrupting trade routes like Bab al-Mandeb. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo country in the Middle East wants to see Iran nuclearized,\u201d she stressed, suggesting Israel bears a disproportionate burden for collective security.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the possibility for dialogue, Weiss said, \u201cYou cannot have a dialogue with someone who wants to eliminate you,\u201d pointing to Iran\u2019s missile inscriptions vowing Israel\u2019s destruction and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear issue violations. <\/p>\n

She linked Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions to its support for proxies like Hamas, whose ideology, she warned, mirrors Iran\u2019s. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey were targeting their own people,\u201d she said of Iran\u2019s regime, urging international pressure to halt its alleged terror sponsorship.<\/p>\n

Weiss praised Israel\u2019s shelters for limiting losses but invited Rwandan media to see beyond \u201cthe number of casualties\u201d and engage further. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are helping the international community,\u201d she concluded, positioning Israel\u2019s fight as a global shield against Iran\u2019s alleged terror-driven chaos.<\/p>\n

On Friday, June 13, 2025, Israel launched a large-scale military operation, dubbed \u201cOperation Rising Lion,\u201d targeting Iran\u2019s nuclear and missile infrastructure. <\/p>\n

The operation involved approximately 200 Israeli Air Force jets striking around 100 sites, including the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, a centerpiece of Iran\u2019s nuclear program. <\/p>\n

The strikes also killed key Iranian figures, including Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran\u2019s armed forces, and several nuclear scientists, marking a significant blow to Iran\u2019s military and scientific leadership.<\/p>\n

In retaliation, Iran launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles toward Israel, targeting cities like Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israeli defense systems, including the Iron Dome, intercepted most, though some strikes caused damage and casualties, with more than 20 deaths reported.<\/p>\n

The escalation entered the fifth day of strikes on Tuesday, with civilians in key conflict zones bearing the impact of the fighting.<\/p>\n

Reports indicate that Iran launched a new wave of missiles toward Israel on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, The U.S. Vice President JD Vance has said in a lengthy social media post defending the US president\u2019s consistency on Iran policy.<\/p>\n

He highlighted that President Donald Trump ‘may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment’.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat decision ultimately belongs to the president. And of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy,\u201d Vance wrote on X.<\/p>\n

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\"Israel\u2019s<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israel\u2019s Ambassador to Rwanda, Einat Weiss, has framed Israel\u2019s military campaign against Iran as a heavy yet essential duty to curb a global terror threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000089295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000089295,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsws7-bx0aa0h_h-46e05.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsws7-bx0aa0h_h-46e05.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsws7-bx0aa0h_h-46e05.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsws7-bx0aa0h_h-46e05.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsws7-bx0aa0h_h-46e05.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gsws7-bx0aa0h_h-46e05.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000089295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54532"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54532"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}