PM: End of Iranian regime depends on Iranian people’s will to ‘throw off the yoke of tyranny’

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the National Health Command Center, March 9, 2026. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the National Health Command Center, March 9, 2026. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Bringing down the regime in Iran is in the hands of the Iranian people, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Our aspiration is to bring the Iranian people to throw off the yoke of tyranny,” says Netanyahu during a visit late last night to the National Health Emergency Operations Center. “Ultimately it depends on them. But there is no doubt that through the actions taken so far we are breaking their bones — and our arm is still outstretched.”

“If we succeed together with the Iranian people, we will bring about a permanent end — if such things exist in the life of nations — and we will bring about change,” says Netanyahu.

He says there is already a  “tremendous change” in Israel’s standing in the world.

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