Global Affairs Editor John Lyons says relations between Israel and the US have strengthened over their stance on Iran.
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00:00They're in lockstep, which is quite different.
00:05Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that previous US administrations, there had been daylight between
00:09Israel and America.
00:11What he's referring to there is particularly Barack Obama.
00:14Obama championed a nuclear deal with the Iranians to try to limit their nuclear development
00:22in return for inspectors going into Iran and making sure they weren't developing a nuclear
00:27bomb.
00:28Donald Trump got rid of that.
00:30The Israelis don't like that.
00:32For the Israelis, we're fascinated by the Palestinian issue at the moment and it's huge.
00:38But for the Israelis, the main game is Iran.
00:41When you live in Israel, you realise that they see Iran as a serious existential threat.
00:47So what's been happening over the last 15 months is Israel has been, one after the other,
00:52picking apart a little proxy here, hitting a proxy there, killing the head of Hezbollah
00:56Hassan Nasrallah, killing the head of Hamas in Tehran, although they've never admitted
01:00to it, they've hinted at it, hitting the Houthis in Yemen.
01:03They've been hitting proxy after proxy.
01:06Now they're going to the head of the snake.
01:08They see Iran as the head of the snake.
01:10The Supreme Leader and the Ayatollahs, the theocracy in Iran, and they will do anything
01:16to stop Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
01:18Donald Trump's echoed that today, so they're in lockstep on that.