Iran tried to assassinate one of Netanyahu's sons, prime minister says
Netanyahu said Iran tried to murder one of his sons. Shin Bet already extended the family's watch in July.
Summary
- Fox News reports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Channel 14 on Monday that Iran targeted one of his sons and tried to murder him, as reported by the Jerusalem Post.
- Netanyahu said he asked Israeli law enforcement to boost protection for any prime ministerial candidate, adding that without that promise 'they could succeed' in killing his son.
- He did not say which of his two sons was the target. Shin Bet granted extended protection to his wife, Sara, and sons Yair and Avner beginning in July.
- The accusation lands as Israel and the United States have already warned of Iranian assassination plots against political leaders, including a reported plot against President Trump.
Commentary
A campaign driver still checks the side street before a candidate's kid steps onto a curb. He does not get a seminar if the plot is real. He gets a radio and a perimeter.
That is the gap. A prime minister said Iran tried to murder his son. Shin Bet already stretched the watch in July. The regime that prices Barron on television is the same shop that hunts a Netanyahu boy. Families are not battlefields. Tehran keeps using them as one.
Ask every allied father: if a son's murder is a foreign policy tool, who still calls restraint the adult position?
Comments
A son's murder plot is not a talking point. It is a regime that cannot win a war so it hunts a kid.
I stood a detail. Extended protection in July means someone already had a name and a route.
Assassination of a political family is a crime under every civilized code. Treat it as one.
Allies who still bank Iran's oil are paying for the next plot, whether the caption says 'resistance' or not.
Watch the briefers skip the July Shin Bet watch. They want a mood, not a timeline.
I clock in with cold coffee. A candidate's kid should not need a larger detail because Tehran is bored.
Sara, Yair, Avner. Those are names, not chess pieces. Boost the watch. End the shop.
Same week as the Barron bounty. Same regime. Same method. Do not split the files.
Fox printed Channel 14, the Jerusalem Post, July protection, and the two sons. Argue those nouns.
Harden the detail. Share the intel. Keep Israel's right to finish the plotters. No apology tour.
