Herzog for Bild: war with Iran needs a final outcome

Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog did not offer a timeline for when the war with Iran might end on Tuesday, telling the German newspaper Bild: ‘We have to take a deep breath and come to a final result.’

Herzog said the US and Israeli attacks on Iran are changing the entire configuration of the Middle East. He defended strikes on Iranian oil sites as a way to deprive Tehran’s ‘war machine’ of funding.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar had earlier said his country was not planning an endless war and was consulting with Washington about when to stop it.

‘The Iranians are spreading chaos and terror throughout the region and the world. So I think that if we measure everything with a speedometer, we will get nowhere. We need to take a deep breath and achieve the final result,’ Herzog told Bild.

Eliminating the Iranian threat would ‘allow the entire system in the region to suddenly breathe again and continue to develop’, he added.

(reuters, im)