We can’t say for sure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ready to strike Iran imminently, but in his powerful speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee tonight, he laid the framework for such an action.

Netanyahu started by mocking Iran’s claim that its nuclear program was merely about producing medical isotopes, saying the world should start “calling a duck a duck.” He decried all of the talk about the cost of preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, suggesting that “It’s time we started talking about the cost of not stopping Iran.”