Amb. John Bolton: ‘Iran fears Netanyahu, Israelis a lot more than they fear Biden and United States today’

Ambassador John Bolton breaks down current conflict in the Middle East as Israelis brace for a promised retaliatory response from the Iran in the aftermath of the Israel’s shocking killing of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this month. Bolton says, “Iran fears Netanyahu and the Israelis a lot more than they fear Biden and the United States today, and that should tell us all something. The killing of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is an insult to Iran. The Israelis were able to get to this fella in Tehran, Iran's capital, in a secure compound with a bomb they had planted two months before. And that means they can get into pretty much anywhere they want in Iran, and nobody, up to and including the Supreme Leader, is safe. So this kind of insult, this kind of injury that Israel has imposed, undercuts Iran's credibility, undercuts the government's credibility inside Iran, it undercuts its credibility with its terrorist proxies that it's helped create around the Middle East, and that's why the pressure on Iran to really do something significant, is so high. The problem for Iran is they fear, correctly I think, that this time Joe Biden is not going to pressure Netanyahu into a small response if Iran really strikes Israel hard this time, Israel will go after real significant targets, up to and including Iran's nuclear weapons program. So Iran's got a real problem. If it doesn't strike Israel hard, it will look like a failed terror state, and if it does, it risks a really substantial Israeli response.” Additional interviews with Director of the Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security Robert Greenway addresses threat of Iran-backed Hezbollah at US southern border and Former Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates on why the Heritage Foundation has created a ‘Project 2025’ for every administration since Reagan. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .