Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran war 'is not over'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran "is not over" in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" set to air on May 10.

The prime minister alleged that Iran still has nuclear material that could be removed if "you go in, and you take it out," in an excerpt of the interview released by the show ahead of air.

Netanyahu said that President Donald Trump told him that "I want to go in there" and refused to rule out the use of American forces to retrieve the nuclear material.

"I'm not (going to) talk about military means," Netanyahu said. "I think it can be done physically."

Netanyahu additionally said that military goals had not been entirely completed.

"There are still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce," Netanyahu said. "Now, we've degraded a lot of it, but all that is still there, and there's work to be done."

USA TODAY has reached out to the White House for comment on the interview.

The interview comes on the same day that Iran responded to a U.S. proposal to end the war, according to Iranian state media. Details of that response have not been released.

"We will never bow our heads before the enemy, and if talk of dialogue or negotiation arises, it does not mean surrender or retreat," Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said in a post on X on May 10. "Rather, the goal is to uphold the rights of the Iranian nation and to defend national interests with resolute strength."

U.S. Energy Secretary Christopher Wright said the Trump administration hadn’t yet heard "a clear resolution" from Iran during a May 10 appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."

The interview also comes as support for Israel in the U.S. is at historic lows.

A Pew Research Center survey published April 7 found that 60% of all American adults had an unfavorable opinion of Israel, compared with 53% a year earlier and a 20-point shift since 2022. Just 37% of respondents had a favorable view of Israel.

The war has fueled Americans' suspicions that Israel, and particularly Netanyahu, dragged the United States into a protracted conflict in the Middle East. Notably, former Trump ally and conservative commentator Tucker Carlson repeatedly called Trump a "slave" to Israel and Netanyahu in interviews.

Contributing: Kathryn Palmer, Karissa Waddick and Eduardo Cuevas – USA TODAY