Bennett posts graphic of multi-pronged plan for toppling Iran regime that Netanyahu neglected

Together party chief Naftali Bennett posts what he says is a sketch that he drew during a security consultation he held as premier in 2022 that laid out several dozen steps Israel would take to bring about regime change in Iran.

Most of the words in the sketch have been blacked out due to security concerns, he says.

This plan was subsequently shelved by the next government after he left office later in 2022, Bennett says.

He claims that had the plan been adopted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the chances of toppling the Iranian regime when internal protests broke out against it would have increased.

The plan had included measures to ensure that the Iranian regime would not be able to shut down the internet — a step that it took in January when it reportedly mowed down thousands of protesters.

“In the last war, it was proven again that with kinetics alone you don’t topple a regime. Netanyahu erred when he neglected (my) action plan… and to our regret, none of the war’s objectives were achieved,” Bennett writes.

He says he will revive what he has dubbed as the multi-pronged “Octopus Plan” for toppling the regime.

Critics of such efforts have argued that regime change can’t be sparked externally and that those who called for it in recent months badly misjudged the situation and pushed for a war that may have ended up strengthening the Islamic Republic.

תסתכלו על הדף הזה, כתבתי אותו במהלך דיון ביטחוני על איראן בינואר 2022 בהיותי ראש ממשלה.

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— Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט (@naftalibennett) July 1, 2026