Netanyahu: Trump and I ‘undermined foundations’ of Iranian regime

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turns to the intimate cooperation between the US and Israel in the war against Iran, saying that it is unprecedented.

Netanyahu stresses that he and Trump speak every day, and laugh at reports that there is tension in the relationship.

Turning to “President Trump, Donald, my friend,” Netanyahu thanks him for “your leadership, and your friendship.” The close friendship “is changing the face of the Middle East,” he says.

The two went to war together to remove an existential threat to Israel and to the entire free world, argues Netanyahu. “That mission, we are carrying out. We are carrying it out step by step, goal by goal.”

If Israel didn’t initiate the two campaigns against Iran in the past year, he claims, Iran “would have achieved a nuclear weapon long ago.”

Netanyahu says that Israel pushed away the dual nuclear and ballistic missile threat.

Israel “undermined the foundations” of the regime, says Netanyahu.

Listing the achievements of the war, Netanyahu says that Israel destroyed Iran’s “missile machine” — Iran can’t build new ones, and their store of missiles is dwindling.

Israel also hit Iran’s nuclear program hard, including factories for building centrifuges and nuclear scientists. He stresses that all of Iran’s enriched uranium will be taken out of the country, “either through agreement, or by renewed fighting.”

He says that Israel also smashed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ sources of funding. The campaign destroyed Iran’s navy, missile bases, military aircraft, and command centers.

“We hit the regime’s apparatus of repression hard,” he says.

Israel also killed senior regime officials, Netanyahu says.