Netanyahu Calls on World to Confront Iran’s ‘Tentacles of Evil’

Times of Israel reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said Iran had “crossed a red line” with its missile barrage directed at Israel on Wednesday night, and that the IDF “reacted accordingly” by striking over 50 Iranian targets in Syria in response.

In his first remarks since the widespread overnight strikes, Netanyahu also said he had sent a clear message to Syrian leader Bashar Assad, warning him to keep Syrian forces out of the fight.

Netanyahu also called on the international community to unite and cut the Revolutionary Guard’s “tentacles of evil” spreading in Syria and elsewhere. “Iran crossed a red line and we reacted accordingly,” the premier said in a Hebrew-language video, released as the security cabinet was meeting at the IDF’s Tel Aviv headquarters.

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