00:01Iran's former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was already killed, but now there's already a new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Manchitaba Khamenei.
00:09So, and Tehran showed no sign of stopping or yielding.
00:13What now is your goal? I mean, and how easy or hard is it achieving your goal?
00:20Look, war is never easy.
00:21I will say we've made a very significant progress over the last week and a half together with our partners
00:26in the United States.
00:27And that goal, as I described it earlier, is very clear.
00:30It's to take that ticking time bomb and to make sure that it's not there.
00:34And the way we're doing that is by taking away military capabilities.
00:37So the first 100 hours of the operation were the first stage where we take that attack,
00:43not only eliminating Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, but also 40 other senior military commanders in the opening minutes.
00:48And over the first five days, we operated on a few different fronts.
00:51We created aerial superiority for the United States and Israel and Iranian skies,
00:56by taking away aerial defense capabilities, radars, land-to-air missiles, so on and so forth.
01:03And the other thing that we did over those first 100 hours is to target their ballistic missile array
01:08and their command and control centers.
01:09Once we finished that first strike, now what we have to do is deepen the deterioration of their military capabilities.
01:16So how are we doing that?
01:17We're striking in Tehran almost every day, command and control capabilities.
01:21We're striking weapons manufacturing capabilities that they're using to build up those ballistic missiles.
01:27We continue to hunt down those ballistic missile capabilities, whether it be launchers, operatives, so on and so forth.
01:32And we're continuing to strike other infrastructure in the, you know, the Iranian regime has a very large military network.
01:38And they have multiple armies.
01:40They have, you know, an Air Force, a Navy.
01:42And what we're doing is we're systematically taking away from those military capabilities so that, you know,
01:47a year down the line, two years down the line, even if they try to build themselves back up,
01:51they won't be the same strategic threat that they are now.
01:55President Trump recently said that war could be ended anytime soon.
01:58Does the Israeli military share the same pronouncement?
02:03So, look, nobody wants long wars, right?
02:06You know, everyone wants to protect our civilians and to do it in minimum time.
02:10The Iranian terrorist regime has a lot of military capabilities.
02:13We work in very close coordination with our partners in the United States as it pertains in general
02:18and as it pertains specifically to this operation.
02:20You know, we're lockstep.
02:21We're talking every day.
02:22We're coordinating our targets.
02:23We're coordinating where we're striking.
02:25And we're going to keep doing that moving forward.
02:27I can't speak to a specific time frame, but I can tell you that we're going to go
02:31as long as it takes to get the job done.
02:34So, what more do we expect from Israel or maybe from the U.S. in the coming days or weeks?
02:40So, we're going to continue operating against those same military capabilities that I spoke about, right?
02:46So, I won't reveal exactly what we're going to do.
02:48You know, I don't want to reveal any future plans to the enemy.
02:50But I can tell you that we have a concrete plan that's to take away those military capabilities.
02:55You know, not just, you know, firing everywhere, but knowing exactly where we're targeting,
02:59what we're striking and how we're striking to slowly deteriorate or, you know, quickly as possible
03:04deteriorate, better said, their military capabilities.
03:06And we're going to keep doing that over the coming days.
03:08You know, us, where we're doing it and the United States Armed Forces, where they're doing it
03:12in order to know that that loaded gun isn't pointed to our head anymore.
03:16Okay.
03:16So, that being said, in the view of the Israeli military, how soon can you achieve that?
03:24So, again, I'm not going to give any specific time frame.
03:27You know, nobody here wants long wars.
03:29That's not our goal.
03:30Our goal is to take that military capability and remove it.
03:34And we'll go for as long as it takes to do that.
03:36Okay.
03:37So, one last question.
03:38Do you have any message for those, especially you are, you, you belong to the Israeli military,
03:45you're the spokesperson.
03:46So, do you have any message for those people, for civilian population, for those who are
03:51really concerned about the spillover of the war?
03:55So, I'll make one thing very clear.
03:58The IDF, and I know the same can be said for the United States Armed Forces, do not want
04:02to harm civilians.
04:03Every loss of civilian life is a tragedy.
04:06And we see it that way, you know, within the construct of war.
04:09And we see it that way in general, right?
04:11You know, when the Iranian terrorist regime murdered tens of thousands of civilians just a few
04:14weeks ago for simply exercising their right to protest, you know, we see those civilian
04:19lives lost as a tragedy as well.
04:21We're operating, you know, within the constructs of international law to take away a military
04:26threat, a threat that is not only posed to our people in Israel, but is posed to the entire
04:30region and is posed internally to the people of Iran.
04:34And we're going to keep going until we remove that military threat.
04:37You know, we don't want to see any civilian lives lost.
04:39We're doing our best to remove any threat to civilian lives.
04:42And we're going to keep going as long as it takes.
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