Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran is trying to rebuild its nuclear weapons program and that President Trump is ready to act against it again alongside him. In remarks made on the eve of Israel's election, he said Trump would go "only with me" to remove the Iranian threat. Netanyahu said the earlier US and Israeli strikes stopped the immediate danger but that Iran is "trying again," pointing to Iranian media reports as part of his case. He added that he has ordered Israel's military and intelligence services to target Iran's ruling establishment, and he called the government in Tehran a fanatical regime that must be removed to secure Israel's future.

Trump publicly endorsed Netanyahu over the weekend, urging Israelis to vote for him and saying they have to "finish the job that we started." Asked about it afterward, Trump said he never spoke about whether Netanyahu had requested the endorsement. The claims about Iran's nuclear program and about Trump's readiness to go to war come from Netanyahu himself and have not been independently confirmed here. Netanyahu's main rival, Gadi Eisenkot, has accused him of a campaign of intimidation, lies and threats after he shared an AI-generated image of a mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv. The big question as Israelis vote is whether this is campaign rhetoric or a real signal of renewed war.