New Delhi, June 16 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday (local time) that Iran had pinpointed US President Donald Trump as a threat to its nuclear program and actively worked to assassinate him.

"They want to kill him. He's enemy number one," Netanyahu said, as quoted by Fox News on Sunday. It was his first interview since Israel launched its blistering attacks on Iran on June 12.

Netanyahu said, "These people who chant 'Death to America', tried to assassinated President Trump twice."

"Do you wan these people to have nuclear weapons and means to deliver them to your cities?" the Israeli PM asked as he who sought to justify Israel's recent waves of missile strikes in Iran.

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