New Delhi, June 23 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday (June 22) said Israel was nearing its strategic goals in Iran following a series of high-profile US-led airstrikes on Tehran's nuclear infrastructure.

"I have no doubt that this is a regime that wants to wipe us out, and that's why we embarked on this operation to eliminate the two concrete threats to our existence: the nuclear threat and the ballistic missile threat," Netanyahu said, addressing reporters.

"We are moving step by step towards achieving these goals. We are very, very close to completing them."

He stressed that the campaign would end only when those objectives were met. "We won't pursue our actions beyond what is needed to achieve them, but we also ...