The hostilities between Israel and Iran should not continue for long, because Israel has “clear goals” to remove “two existential threats,” Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer tells Newsmax.

“One is Iran’s military nuclear capability; the other is [its] ballistic missile capability,” Dermer, also a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, said in an interview on Newsmax’s “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” on Monday.

The ballistic missiles used by Iran can take out entire neighborhoods, he stressed.

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