In message to Iranians, PM says Islamic Republic’s axis is crumbling due to chain reaction set off by Israel

Issuing a video message aimed at the people of Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Iranian axis was crumbling due to a “chain reaction” set off by Israel, and expresses his hope that Iran can “be free” and make peace globally.

Speaking in English with Persian subtitles, Netanyahu points out that Iranian leaders “spent over 30 billion dollars supporting [Bashar] Assad in Syria” before his regime “collapsed into dust.”

“Your oppressors spent billions supporting Hamas in Gaza. Today their regime lies in ruins,” he adds. “Your oppressors spent over 20 billion dollars supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon. In a matter of weeks, most of Hezbollah’s leaders, its rockets and thousands of its terrorists went up in smoke.”

Netanyahu — in his third video message addressing Iranians in recent months — said that the new reality today is “a chain reaction — a chain reaction to the pounding of Hamas, the decimation of Hezbollah, the targeting of [Hezbollah’s] Nasrallah, the blows we delivered to the Iran regime’s axis of terror. And all this came, as President Trump pointed out this week, ‘because of Israel and its fighting success.'”

He says that while Iran’s leaders “seek to conquer other nations, to impose fundamentalist tyranny on the Middle East,” Israel is seeking only to “defend our state. But in so doing, we’re defending civilization against barbarism.”

Addressing Iranian citizens, the prime minister says he believes that “just as we want peace with you, you want peace with us.”

“But you suffer under the rule of a regime that subjugates you and threatens us,” he says. “You know what this regime is truly terrified of? It’s terrified of you, the people of Iran. And one day, I know that, one day this will change. One day Iran will be free.”