Netanyahu Asked: 'Do You Believe That Regime Change Is Still Necessary' In Iran?

While taking questions from reporters with President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked if he supports regime change in Iran.

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00:00Bad surprises.

00:01Mr. President, again, real quick, on Iran, in your view, is the war between Israel and Iran over,

00:09or do those talks need to happen before you can...

00:12Well, I would say that the best man to answer that is the prime minister.

00:17But I will tell you that, in my view, I hope it's over.

00:21Yeah, I think Iran wants to meet, I think they want to make peace, and I'm all for it.

00:26Now, if that's not the case, we are ready, willing, and able.

00:29But I don't think we're going to have to be, but I think Bibi would answer that question very well.

00:35I think the partnership between Israel and the United States,

00:40the partnership between President Trump and me, produced a historic victory.

00:46It's an incredible victory, actually.

00:49It brought the greatest capabilities of the United States that are matched

00:54with the great capabilities of Israel,

00:58Israel and the army of Israel, pilots of Israel, soldiers of Israel, and the Mossad.

01:06And the combination of these two extraordinary capacities

01:10produced a decisive result.

01:13It set back the two tumors that were threatening the life of Israel,

01:20the nuclear tumor and the ballistic missile tumor,

01:26because they were planning to build 20,000 of these things

01:29and launch it in a country the size of New Jersey.

01:32No country could withstand that.

01:34So what do you do when you have two things that are going to kill you?

01:38You have to remove them.

01:39With our combined effort, we did.

01:42But when you remove a tumor, it doesn't mean that it can't come back.

01:44You have to constantly monitor the situation to make sure that there's no attempt to bring it back.

01:50So we've had a great achievement, and I think part of the effort of consolidating this

01:56and ensuring that we don't have to repeat this is to monitor this carefully.

02:02Of course, the president and I are talking about it.

02:04Our teams are talking about it.

02:05But there's no question.

02:06This is a historic victory.

02:08And I think, as was said here today, this has already changed the face of the Middle East.

02:15But it's not over in your view.

02:15But I think that there's an opportunity here to create a historic expansion of the Abraham Accords,

02:23which were themselves an act of history, that deserve a noble prize for the president.

02:29But I think the opportunities are much bigger.

02:31And I hope, I'd like to believe, that Iran would not test our fortitude because it would be a mistake.

02:41It's better to go a different way.

02:42Do you believe that regime change is still necessary there?

02:45I think it's up to the people.