 We are attacking Iran. Netanyahu. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is making every possible effort to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons and that Israel is already carrying out direct attacks on the Islamic Republic. Answering a reporter's question in Tel Aviv about why Israel is conducting attacks on Iran's proxies rather than attacking Iran directly, Netanyahu replied, who says we are not attacking Iran? We are attacking. Israel claims Iran was involved in plotting the October 7th attacks. Israel has previously openly accused Iran of aiding Hamas with money, training and weapons and technological know-how and intelligence. Iran is standing behind it. We are in conflict with Iran. Imagine not what Iran can do to us to destroy us. Netanyahu said, Israel will only agree to a deal that sees it gain security control over all of Gaza. Netanyahu added, Iran has denied any role in the Hamas assault on Israel with Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani saying such accusations were based on political reasons. Netanyahu added that Iran is the head of the octopus and you see its tentacles all over from the Houthis to Hezbollah and to Hamas. Iran has widely been seen by Israel and the US as the major destabilizing power in the Middle East, allegedly supplying weapons, military expertise and training to Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The US has said previously that Iran is deeply involved in Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, claiming that it has provided the rebels with drones, missiles and intelligence.