PM: I won’t put timeline on when Iran war will end, but over half our missions achieved

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the war on Iran has achieved more than half its aims, without putting a timeline on when it would end.

“It’s definitely beyond the halfway point. But I don’t want to put a schedule on it,” Netanyahu tells the conservative US broadcaster Newsmax.

He adds that he meant the war was more than halfway “in terms of missions, not necessarily in terms of time.”

Netanyahu says the war has achieved goals, including killing “thousands” of members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Israel and the United States are also “close to finishing [Iran’s] arms industry,” he adds.

“Just the whole industrial base — wiping out… entire plants, and the nuclear program itself,” he says.

Netanyahu also voices confidence that the Islamic Republic would fall.

“I think this regime will collapse internally. But at the moment, what we’re doing is just degrading their military capacity, degrading their missile capacity, degrading their nuclear capacity and also weakening them from the inside,” Netanyahu says.