Netanyahu: ‘We’ve smashed Iran’s industrial capability’ to produce nuclear bombs, ballistic missiles

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is creating “new alliances with important countries in the region” against the shared Iranian threat.

He does not mention which states he is referring to, only saying he hopes that “soon, I will be able to tell you more about these important pacts.”

Netanyahu promises that “sooner or later,” the Iranian regime will fall.

Netanyahu sums up 10 major achievements he says were accomplished in the war, including the creation of “security zones” in Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon that are patrolled by the IDF.

He lauds the IDF’s accomplishments in the wars against Iran last June and in the current campaign, including “hitting hard and distancing two existential threats”: Iran, he specifies, was “moving ahead to develop nuclear weapons and tens of thousands of ballistic missiles.”

“In Operation Rising Lion, we removed from upon us the immediate threat of Iran arming itself with a nuclear weapon and many ballistic missiles,” he says, referring to the June war. And in the current war, he adds, “We brought a complementary achievement, by smashing the industrial capability of the regime to produce these tools of destruction.”

Netanyahu says Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader who was killed on the war’s first day, wanted to bury these programs deep underground to make them immune from Israeli attacks.

The premier adds that Hezbollah, which has been pounding northern Israel with rockets and missiles for the past month, no longer constitutes “a strategic threat” to Israel.

After an edit in the video, Netanyahu turns to the press and opposition, asking, “What happened to you?” He demands that they “raise the morale of our side, not of the enemy.”