Did PM Modi know about US-Israel's Iran strike plan? What Israeli envoy said

NEW DELHI: Israeli envoy to India, Reuven Azar, connected Monday addressed the ongoing Middle East conflict, explaining the timing of Israel’s caller subject cognition connected Iran and its narration to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sojourn to Israel successful February.He acknowledged that tensions astir Israel were already precocious earlier PM Modi’s arrival, but Tel Aviv waited until the Prime Minister’s departure to prehend the "operational opportunity" to enactment against Iran.“It was evident that the concern is precise volatile successful our portion adjacent earlier Prime Minister Modi came (on February 25–26, 2026). When it comes to the determination to strike, the operational accidental came lone aft PM Modi left.

The furniture determination to o.k. the cognition happened lone 2 days after,” helium told ANI quality agency, addressing speculations astir the timing of the US-Israel strikes connected Iran.

On India’s presumption regarding the US-Israel struggle with Iran, Azar said, “We volition proceed our engagements with India. We person a batch of communal interests. Of course, India volition prosecute diplomatic efforts that service the Indian interests.”He besides commented connected Iran’s retaliatory strikes, noting that Israel had anticipated specified moves.

“We are not surprised, we knew that the Iranians person these capabilities. In fact, pursuing our effort backmost successful June, we person degraded the capabilities of Iranians and the harm that they are inflicting connected Israel present is overmuch little than what they did backmost successful June. They decided to escalate by attacking 12 countries successful the region.

I deliberation this is wholly irresponsible...The unit is connected them and volition proceed to beryllium connected them due to the fact that they are the aggressors.”Responding to disinformation astir Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Azar said, “Prime Minister Netanyahu is alive. I saw him personally erstwhile I was successful Israel much than once. This video astatine the cafe is not AI-fabricated. There is simply a batch of disinformation.”Regarding Israel’s strategical goals successful the conflict, Azar said, “There is nary shifting of the extremity post. We person stated, astatine the outset, that we person 3 goals – to neutralise the atomic threat, to neutralise the ballistic rocket menace and to springiness the Iranian radical an accidental to clasp the aboriginal by degrading the capableness of the forces of oppression wrong Iran...So, we are doing precisely that. Nothing has changed successful presumption of our aims.

..We volition marque definite that aft this warfare is over, the Iranian authorities cannot reconstitute these plans.”