Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a visit to a secretive Israeli atomic reactor on Wednesday to warn the country's enemies that it has the means to destroy them, in what appeared to be a veiled reference to its assumed nuclear arsenal.
"Those who threaten to wipe us out put themselves in a similar danger, and in any event will not achieve their goal," he said during a ceremony to rename the complex, near the desert town of Dimona, after the late Israeli statesman Shimon Peres.
Netanyahu's remarks, issued by his office in a transcript, came as Israel lobbies world powers to follow the United States in exiting their 2015 deal with Iran that capped the Islamic Republic's nuclear capabilities.
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