Prime Minister Naftali Bennett began his first cabinet meeting June 20 with a firm statement about the election of Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s new president. He said, “Raisi is personally responsible for the murder of many thousands of innocent Iranian citizens. His election is a signal to the world powers to wake up. It may even be the last signal they get, moments before they come to a nuclear agreement. It reminds them with whom they are doing business, and what kind of regime they are choosing to bolster. What is obvious to all of us is that this is a government by hangman. They must not be allowed to have weapons of mass destruction. That has always been the clear and consistent position of the State of Israel.”
