Alon Roth-Snir: New Zealand's Israeli ambassador on the Israel-Iran ceasefire holding steady

Iran and Israel have had their first quiet night in almost two weeks, as a fragile ceasefire continues to hold.

President Donald Trump is slamming a leaked intelligence assessment suggesting this week's US strikes have left Iran's nuclear programmes largely intact.

He's posted calling it one of the most successful military strikes in history.

New Zealand's Israeli ambassador Alon Roth-Snir says it has at least removed the imminent nuclear threat.

"We are very, very thankful for what President Trump and the United States army have done."

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ceasfire deal between Israel and around seems to be holding
for now. It's clear both sides are frustrating Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Though, I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when when
I say, okay, now you have twelve hours, you don't
go out in the first hour, just drop everything you
have on them. So I'm not happy with them. I'm
not happy with the run either.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Alone.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Roth is the Israeli ambassador back with us alone. Thanks
for your time, Thank you. Can you understand why Donald
Trump so frustrated with Israel.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I know that after we were in full coordination and
decided on seas fire, unfortunately Round continued to shoot misselves
on our cities. We had, you know, from north to
the south. We had the false citizens in the south
of Israel. Whole family that died out of these missiles.

(00:52):
And this was ours after the Ceasfire entered into force.
So the problematics at that time. But still we are very,
very thankful for what President Trump and the United States
Army have done during this twelve days of operation in Iran.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
The suggestion is that the bombing that happened in Iran
has only set back the new program by maybe a
few months. What's your intelligence.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, it's too early to assess. You know, every such
operation that is so complex and that is going after
so many parts of these vicious nuclear program niclep plan
and surface to surface missiles plants everywhere in Iran is
take time. We know, we know for sure that we

(01:46):
were able to push back the program, both programs, and
we think that we removed at least the immate threat
that we had on our heads. And I think it's
very important to go back to two facts. I mean,
those were the two projects that weren't meant to you
to be used as tools in the annihilation plan against iswel.

(02:09):
So we think that what we did really stopped, it
stopped at least the imminency of this threat up on
our heads.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
All right, Alon, thank you so much. Appreciate your time.
As per Alon roth Is Ralli Ambassador.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
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