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IDF says toppling Iran’s regime isn’t one of the army’s war goals
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIn a press conference last night, IDF Spokesperson Effie Defrin said that toppling Iran’s regime isn’t a goal of the current war as far as the military is concerned.
“We in the army, as an army, don’t have a goal of toppling a regime. We don’t topple a regime. We do create the conditions and undermine it so that, over time, the Iranian people will take their fate into their own hands and reclaim this country, which has been taken hostage by this terror regime. That is the story,” he said in response to a question.
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