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18 January 2022

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the World Economic Forum that “we have a common foe in the region and that’s Iran. We need reasonable-minded countries, that want to fight extreme Islam, collaborating… More and more regional partners are coming to see Israel as an anchor of stability in a very tumultuous region”. “Iran is an octopus of terror and instability”, he added. “The last thing you want to do with this sort of octopus is pour tens of billions of dollars into this apparatus... Everything we’ve seen will be doubled and tripled because they’ll be much stronger”. “Investing in Iran is not a sound investment, whether there’s a [nuclear] deal or not a deal”, Bennett emphasised.

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