Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he had not yet made any decision about a possible attack against Iran, but he added that the Zionist entity had the “right to defend itself”.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he had not yet made any decision about a possible attack against Iran, but he added that the Zionist entity had the “right to defend itself”.

"I have not taken a decision" on any attack against Iranian nuclear facilities, Netanyahu said in response to a question during an interview with the private television Channel 2.
But the prime minister stressed "the right” of the occupier entity to “defend against any threat to its security and existence."

"Israel's fate depends solely on us and no other country, however friendly," he said, in reference to the United States.
Asked about reports that the occupation army, the Mossad intelligence agency, and the Shin Bet internal security service were against any attack launched without US consent, he said: "In a democracy, only the political leaders decide, and the military executes."

He recalled that then prime minister Menachem Begin had given the green light in 1981 for an air strike against a nuclear plant in Iraq "despite the opposition at the time of the chiefs of the Mossad and military intelligence."

"Political leaders have a more global vision and it is they who bear supreme responsibility," Netanyahu said in another interview with private television Channel 10.
His remarks came shortly after the arrival in the occupied territories of US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.