Netanyahu maintains Israel ‘created conditions’ for Iranian regime to fall, claims protests taking place ‘today’

Wrapping up his Hebrew-language press conference, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touts Israel’s military achievements against Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and in Iran, asserting that Jerusalem “created conditions” for the regime in Tehran to eventually fall.

Repeating a claim he made last week, Netanyahu says that Israel “created conditions” for regime change in Iran through the US-Israeli campaign there, saying the current circumstances “will ultimately enable the Iranian people to do what I believe will happen: bring down this regime.”

“That will not happen in a single day. There are demonstrations in Iran today — today,” he says.

It is not immediately clear what Netanyahu is referring to. There have not been recent reports of major, organized mass demonstrations inside Iran, though there are reports of some localized protests against the government, primarily by university students protesting wartime education policies.

On Gaza, Netanyahu says the IDF “dismantled most of Hamas’s military capabilities,” adding that the recent assassination of Hamas leader Izz al-Din al-Haddad several weeks ago drew “not even a single bullet, not a bullet, not a missile,” in response.

“True, their civilian capabilities remain, and we still have work to do,” he says of the Gazan terror group, “but it is an enormous achievement.”

It’s unclear what the premier means by “civilian capabilities.” Hamas gunmen still patrol the streets of Gaza’s cities and it has refused to agree to any disarmament plan that would see it give up its remaining arsenal.