Netanyahu says campaign against Iran ‘not over,’ admits ‘more to do’ as he touts ‘historic achievements’

The campaign against Iran “is not over,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says in a video statement, “but we can already say clearly — We have historic achievements.”

Moving to a map of the Middle East with the Iranian axis highlighted in red, Netanyahu says that “they wanted to strangle us, and we are strangling them.”

“We hit them, we still have more to do,” he says.

Netanyahu says that he spent much of his life ensuring that Iran won’t achieve a nuclear weapon, including approving covert operations to delay it and telling the world of the danger. “But the world wouldn’t hear,” he says.

Netanyahu says that Israel “broke the barrier of fear” by striking Iran last June.

Netanyahu obliquely criticizes Israel’s intelligence agencies — and again absolves himself of blame — over the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack, saying “this time, precise intelligence reached me on time.”