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00:00Under President Trump's visionary leadership, America and Israel are acting together in Iran
00:06with great determination and unprecedented strength.
00:11Operation Rising Line is designed to remove the existential threats posed by the Ayatollah regime,
00:18the regime that has waged war against America and Israel and the people of Iran for 47 years.
00:24It chants death to America, death to Israel, and it delivers death to its own people.
00:31Our goals are three.
00:35One, removing the nuclear threat.
00:39Second, removing the ballistic missile threat and removing both of these threats
00:44before they're buried deep underground and become immune from aerial attack.
00:49And third, this means creating the conditions for the Iranian people to grasp their freedom, to control their destiny.
00:59Today, the Ayatollah regime is not only attacking America, not only attacking Israel, not only attacking the Iranian people.
01:08It is attacking the entire Middle East and beyond.
01:12They've attacked civilians and Americans and American assets in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman.
01:22And they've even attacked, through their proxies, Cyprus and Europe.
01:26We've warned for decades that their ballistic missile program would be used to attack these targets far and wide.
01:34And if they're not stopped, that's just the beginning.
01:39The death cult in Iran is trying to blackmail the world by closing a key international maritime route, the Straits
01:46of Hormuz.
01:48It won't work.
01:49Israel is helping in its own way, and intel in other means, the American effort to open the Straits of
01:55Hormuz.
01:59But I want to ask you to imagine how the Ayatollah regime would be able to blackmail the entire world
02:07if they had ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads.
02:12Just imagine what they would do.
02:14Look at what they're doing now and imagine what they would do if they had ballistic missiles, international range ballistic
02:21missiles, and nuclear-tipped warheads.
02:25Just imagine what a great threat that would be.
02:29So today Israel and the United States are protecting America, Israel, the entire Middle East, but I venture to say
02:37the entire world.
02:39Despite the fake news that is unfortunately being spread since the start of the war 20 days ago, we are
02:48winning and Iran is being decimated.
02:50Iran's missile and drone arsenal is being massively degraded and will be destroyed.
02:56Hundreds of their launchers have been destroyed.
02:58Their stockpiles of missiles are being hit hard, and so are the industries that produce them.
03:04That's important.
03:06In Rising Line, we destroyed missiles, and we destroyed a lot of the nuclear infrastructure.
03:12But what we're destroying now are the factories that produce the components to make these missiles and to make the
03:21nuclear weapons that they're trying to produce.
03:24We're wiping out their industrial base in a way that we didn't do before.
03:29Iran's air defenses have been rendered useless.
03:32Their navy is lying at the bottom of the sea.
03:34Today we hit the other part of their navy, in the Caspian Sea.
03:38Their air force is nearly destroyed.
03:41Iran's command and control structure is in utter chaos.
03:45And I can tell you that there's still more work to do, and we're going to do it.
03:51And I want to close these opening remarks with one other fake news, and that is that Israel somehow dragged
03:57the U.S. into a conflict with Iran.
04:01Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Trump what to do?
04:06Come on.
04:08President Trump always makes his decisions on what he thinks is good for America, and may I add, I think
04:15what is also good for future generations.
04:17In this case, those interests are absolutely clear, and so is the clarity of our achievements.
04:23Together, in close coordination with President Trump, close coordination between America and Israel, our militaries, our intelligence services, we're achieving
04:35goals in lightning speed.
04:37Indeed, but I want to say another word.
04:41It's been said that for 40 years, I've been saying that Iran is a danger to Israel and a danger
04:49to the world.
04:50That is true.
04:52You know who else said that?
04:54President Trump, 47 years ago, when the Iranian thugs took over the American embassy, he said how dangerous this regime
05:04is.
05:05In his first term in office, he didn't need any convincing.
05:09He said the Iranian nuclear deal was the worst deal that he'd ever seen, and he walked out of it.
05:15Right before his second term, before he was re-elected, I went to see him in Mar-a-Lago.
05:21The first thing he said to me was, baby, we've got to make sure that Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons.
05:28He said that to me.
05:29I didn't say it to him.
05:31He didn't need any convincing there either.
05:33Now, why did he say that?
05:35Because for more than four decades, this regime, as I said in the beginning of my remarks, is chanting, death
05:42to Israel, death to America.
05:44But they say Israel is only the small Satan standing in their way.
05:48The great Satan is the United States of America.
05:52And these ideological fanatics, these lunatics, define their raison d'etre.
05:57Their reason for being is wiping out Western civilization and America that leads it.
06:04They have claimed the lives, they've maimed and wounded thousands of Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan.
06:12They killed the American Marines in Beirut.
06:15They bombed your embassies.
06:16They tried to assassinate the American president, Donald Trump, not once, but twice.
06:24Now they blackmail for oil.
06:27Just imagine what they would do, what they're capable of doing, if these lunatics had nuclear weapons and the means
06:35to deliver them to every American city and every European city and everywhere around the globe.
06:42This is a danger for the entire world.
06:44It's certainly a danger for Israel.
06:45It's certainly a danger for America.
06:47We see eye to eye on that.
06:50President Trump and I, Israel and America.
06:52But I think if people are honest, if leaders are honest, they would understand that we're not only fighting our
07:00fight, we're fighting their fight.
07:02I speak to dozens of world leaders.
07:05Dozens.
07:08They all know that.
07:10And privately, they all say that.
07:14They say that privately, but I say it publicly.
07:18The world owes a debt of deep indebtedness, deep indebtedness, to President Trump for leading this effort to safeguard our
07:28future.
07:30Questions?
07:31We'll now take a few questions.
07:33The first question is from Zach Anders from Newsmax.
07:36Mr. Prime Minister, Zach Anders, Newsmax.
08:13Okay.
08:16Hello.
08:17Welcome back to the program.
08:18Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking there.
08:21Well, let's debrief and cross live to Noga Tanopolsky, our correspondent in Jerusalem.
08:29Noga, before we go to Noga, we're going to go back to Netanyahu because we haven't sat back.
08:34I think it's too early to say, and I think in the final account, as I said, it's up to
08:38the Iranian people to show that, to choose the moment and to rise to the moment.
08:43We can create the conditions, but we can create the conditions, but they have to explode those conditions at a
08:49certain point.
08:50It is often said that you can't win, you can't do revolutions from the air.
08:54That is true.
08:56You can't do it only from the air.
08:57You can do a lot of things from the air, and we're doing, but there has to be a ground
09:02component as well.
09:03There are many possibilities for this ground component, and I take the liberty of not sharing with you all those
09:11possibilities.
09:12Would you recognize Pahlavi if the people keep chanting for him in the streets?
09:17Well, I'm not going to say who specifically is going to be there, but I think he's been a force
09:23for good.
09:24He's been trying to get the people to unite for a transitional government, a democratic transitional government, or a moderate
09:32transitional government.
09:33I hope that one, that it comes to being.
09:35I think it's too early to say.
09:36Next question from Richard Engel from NBC News.
09:40Good to see you again.
10:04Well, I think we have concrete goals, how to do it, how to end it.
10:08We want to, as I said, decimate the ballistic missile program, which we're doing, decimate the nuclear program, which we're
10:16doing.
10:17I think that those are goals that are achievable, but I'm not going to put a schedule or a stopwatch
10:23on it.
10:24I think we have goals that have to be achieved, and we're not counting the days.
10:30But I will say this.
10:32This canard that we dragged the United States into it is not just a canard.
10:38It's ridiculous.
10:39It's just ridiculous.
10:40I mean, I think President Trump said it best, and I said it as well many times.
10:47There's always a danger in acting.
10:50But in conditions of existential threats, there's a much greater danger in not acting.
10:57What do you think would have happened if America did not act now?
11:02Just imagine what would have happened.
11:04In a few months' time, no more than a year, Khamenei, still alive, would have ordered the beginnings of the
11:13new nuclear program
11:16and the reconstructed ballistic missile program to move underground.
11:21Now, it'll take them a little time, maybe a few years, but you can't reach those programs.
11:27And they develop intercontinental ballistic missiles, okay?
11:32That means missiles that can hit Chicago and New York and Florida and Texas and California.
11:39Oh, but they don't have it yet.
11:41That's what people said.
11:42Right, let's wait.
11:44Just let them do it, you know.
11:46Just wait.
11:47Wait and let them do it.
11:48You won't be able to do it.
11:50It's the last moment.
11:51No, it takes a little time.
11:52I mean, you had a few months to prevent them from doing it and to just decimate these industries
11:59and perhaps achieve this transitional government in Iran.
12:03So you'd sit back and you'd say, well, it's not going to happen in the next Thursday, so let's not
12:08act.
12:09I tell you that there's enormous risk in not acting, much greater risk than acting.
12:16And if you think that the oil markets are in trouble today,
12:19think of Iran with nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.
12:24Then think of the blackmail that you would endure.
12:30Okay, we're going to go to the next question.
12:32No, no, I think I only figured out.
12:33This is a serious subject.
12:34What is the question?
12:35Yeah, but there's one question.
12:36Go ahead.
12:38We don't have a lot of attention.
12:39Why don't this is a war?
12:40Go ahead, ask.
12:41Of course, but you have...
12:42There are oil fields around the world that are burning.
12:46Gas prices are going up.
12:48The war is popular here in Israel.
12:50It's not popular with many Americans.
12:52My question was, how do you see this ending?
12:55Not why, not even when.
12:57What do you imagine the day after?
12:59Well, we have achievable goals.
13:01And I'm not going to speak about the full battle plans that we have with the United States.
13:06We're well coordinated with them.
13:07But I will say this.
13:10That once we achieve our goals, then I have argued, I think, and Americans understand this very well, because we're
13:21real partners.
13:23I think that what has to be done is to have alternative routes.
13:28Instead of going through the choke points of the Hormuz Straits and the Bab el-Mandeb Straits in order to
13:37have the flow of oil, just have oil pipelines, gas pipelines going west through the Arabian Peninsula, right up to
13:47Israel, right up to our Mediterranean ports.
13:49And you've just done away with the choke points for forever.
13:53That is definitely possible.
13:55So I see that as a real change that will follow this war.
14:03But I also see this war ending a lot faster than people think.
14:07I think you have to, in war, you have to grit your teeth.
14:11Churchill said that democracies suffer from the slumber of democracies, as he called it.
14:19And they only wake up, he said, they may wake up only when they hear the gong, the jarring gong
14:26of danger, is the way he put it.
14:28Well, you're hearing the jarring gong of danger.
14:34The jarring gong of danger is Iran gets nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
14:40That's not a jarring gong.
14:43That is an apocalypse.
14:44Don't let it happen.
14:46And the function of leaders is to stand and tell people the truth, even when things are uncomfortable.
14:54That's what you have to do.
14:56And you don't always see the danger in time.
14:59But leaders are tasked with the task of seeing danger in time and acting on it.
15:04And I hope that in time, people will see the wisdom and the courage of President Trump's decision and his
15:11leadership and the fact that we're working together.
15:14America is not fighting for Israel.
15:16America is fighting with Israel for a common goal, to protect our future, to protect civilization against these barbarians.
15:23Next question, one question, Guy Azriel from I-24 News.
15:28Thank you, Prime Minister.
15:28Guy Azriel, I-24 News.
15:30President Trump said today he did not like the Israeli strike on the Iranian gas fields.
15:36My question to you, was the President aware of Israel striking that gas field?
15:41Did you approve it?
15:42And please, if you may, do you see any signs that the Iranian regime is collapsing?
15:47And what assurances do you give the Israeli public that if it does stand on its feet, we will not
15:52see another wave of a war with Iran in maybe five or ten years?
15:59Well, I'll say two things.
16:01Fact number one, Israel acted alone against the Slouia gas compound.
16:07Fact number two, President Trump asks us to hold off on future attacks, and we're holding out.
16:14What do we see, what happens if the, are there any signs that the Iranian regime is cracking?
16:21A lot of signs.
16:22A lot of signs.
16:23I wish I could divulge all of them, but I see that.
16:26But will I tell you, will I commit right now that it's going to collapse?
16:30I can tell you that we're working to create the conditions for it to collapse.
16:34But it may, it may survive, it may not.
16:38If it survives, it'll be a lot weaker.
16:41There's no comparison.
16:42It'll be at its weakest point, shorn of industries that it built over decades, death industries,
16:48shorn of many other capabilities that they have, and equipped with the experience, with the knowledge,
16:54that if they try it again, they'll be hit again even harder.
16:57I cannot tell you of the technological developments that we are engaged in to anticipate this and other possibilities,
17:08but Israel has shown that it can do wondrous things, and in partnership with our American allies,
17:15we can do amazing things, amazing things.
17:19As Pete Hexet, the Secretary of War, said, these are the two most amazing air forces in the world.
17:25It's the two most amazing intelligence services in the world.
17:30It has the capabilities to confront these barbarians and to outstrip them,
17:35both in innovation and, when necessary, in lethality.
17:39It's directed, it's targeted lethality.
17:42It's going against the killers, and as much as possible to avoid civilian casualties.
17:46We have those capacities.
17:47We're building them for the future.
17:49That is what safeguards the future.
17:52You know, if people want to be naive, that they don't see the kind of world we're living in.
17:57In this world, it's not enough to be moral.
18:03It's not enough to be just.
18:05It's not enough to be right.
18:07You know?
18:08One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, someone that I admire a lot,
18:14was the historian Will Durant.
18:17He wrote many volumes.
18:20I read most of them.
18:21He also wrote The Lessons of History.
18:24Very brief, 100-page book.
18:26In which he said, well, history proves that, unfortunately and unhappily,
18:35Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan.
18:40Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough,
18:46evil will overcome good.
18:48Aggression will overcome moderation.
18:51So you have no choice if you look at the world as it is today.
18:55You have to be blind not to see that the democracies led by the United States
19:01have to reassert their will to defend themselves
19:04and to oppose their enemies in time while there's still time,
19:09before the jarring gong of danger wakes them up and wakes them up too late.
19:15This is where we are now.
19:16The fact that people don't see that, the fact that a lot of the news media
19:21are harking on a lot of fake news, but also a lot of short-sightedness
19:29and do not see the historic period and the historic struggle that we are engaged in now
19:35doesn't obviate these truths.
19:37We are, we have to be strong.
19:39We have to be armed.
19:41We have to be more powerful than the barbarians
19:43or they will not be merely at the gate.
19:45They'll crash our gates and destroy our societies.
19:48That's what Israel is doing now with the United States.
19:52And I'm very proud of the fact that the Israeli people are standing strong,
19:56that the Israeli army is standing strong.
19:59We rose from October 7th.
20:02Our people, our soldiers rose like lions.
20:06But in protecting ourselves
20:07and in joining with our great American friends,
20:10we're also protecting the entire world.
20:13Next question, Tom Burridge from ABC News.
20:16Sure.
20:17Hi, Tom Sufi Burridge, ABC News.
20:19Prime Minister, given the escalation of attacks on U.S. allies across the Gulf,
20:24given the spiraling energy costs,
20:26the high costs in general that the U.S. service personnel killed in this war,
20:30many Americans are asking that question,
20:33whether you misled their government into starting this war,
20:37and for how long should Americans keep paying the price?
20:40Well, I misled no one.
20:42And I didn't have to convince President Trump about the need to prevent Iran from developing its nuclear program,
20:50putting it underground,
20:51and being able to launch nuclear-tipped missiles at the United States.
20:55He understood that.
20:56He explained it to me.
20:57I didn't explain it to him.
20:59And I think that our partnership is the only way to avoid this catastrophic development.
21:07The loss of servicemen is painful.
21:10I, early on in my military service, a fellow soldier died in my arms.
21:15I lost a brother who fought terrorists,
21:20led the historic Antebri rescue.
21:22The cost to bereaved families is enormous.
21:27And I sympathize and send the condolences of the people of Israel to these families and to the American people.
21:35Freedom is precious.
21:37It has its costs.
21:39But if you're not prepared to defend it,
21:41if you're not prepared to resist the tyrannies that are trying to arm themselves with the weapons of mass death,
21:48you will have no future.
21:50And therefore, we're doing what we can.
21:51As far as oil prices rising, spikes, you know what a spike is?
21:56You know what a spike is?
21:57It goes up and goes down.
22:00The Americans are working very hard,
22:02and we're trying to help them in every way that we can,
22:05to open the Straits of Hormuz.
22:08And if they succeed, which I think they will,
22:11then oil prices will come down.
22:14But if you say,
22:15all right, I'm suffering right now,
22:18and people are,
22:20then I shouldn't do anything.
22:21I should just succumb to the blackmail.
22:23Let Iran get on with it.
22:24Let them develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to deliver them to New York and Los Angeles.
22:31You're going to be blackmailed in ways that you can't even imagine.
22:34I think what this war has done is unmask what Iran is.
22:39You know, we've said for years, look at these people.
22:42They're doing things that normal regimes do not do.
22:45I don't hear even adversaries of the United States chanting death to America,
22:51death to the great Satan,
22:54massacring tens of thousands of their own people at will like that in two days.
22:58You have that sometimes.
23:00But the combination, the combination of fanaticism, deep ideological lunacy,
23:07there's no other way to call it,
23:09the total and utter ruthlessness of this regime makes it uniquely dangerous.
23:15Uniquely dangerous not only to Israel and to the United States,
23:19but to everything in between and far beyond.
23:21And the fact that this is not recognized,
23:24you ask me, okay, what do people think?
23:27What did they think in the 30s?
23:30What did they think in the 30s?
23:32When you had a terrible, ruthless, killer regime,
23:36led by a lunatic,
23:39that took one country after the other,
23:42did it very sequentially,
23:44what did they say?
23:48They said what?
23:49They said, let's stay out of this.
23:50It's not our war.
23:52It's not our problem.
23:54Maybe it's only the Jews.
23:56Have we learned nothing, absolutely nothing in these 80 years?
24:01We cannot see the danger that lurks.
24:04It doesn't lurk.
24:05It's risen from the mud.
24:07It's right in our face.
24:09It's splattering blood right at us.
24:14I can't believe that we're clueless.
24:20We're not clueless.
24:21I talked to many American friends.
24:24They're not clueless.
24:25They understand this.
24:26Some don't.
24:27Some are adamantly opposed,
24:28but many are adopting a wait-and-see attitude.
24:32But I can tell you that I've spoken,
24:33as I said a minute ago,
24:35I've spoken to many, many leaders.
24:37We're talking about dozens and dozens of leaders.
24:40And they all say the same thing.
24:42I understand it.
24:44Some of them come out and say it.
24:46They're bold.
24:47And some of them say,
24:48you know,
24:51I don't know.
24:52You know,
24:53I wish,
24:54I understand it,
24:55but some of my people don't,
24:56or my news media are against me and so on.
24:58I was glad to see in the United States
25:00that an enormous number,
25:03an enormous percentage of President Trump supporters,
25:06traditional supporters, understand it.
25:07And I hope that
25:10my friends and colleagues of many years
25:12on the other side of the aisle,
25:14those who understand and agree
25:16with what I just said,
25:18and there are quite a few of them,
25:20have the courage to come out and say it.
25:23Because at the end,
25:24at the end,
25:25what is the task of leaders,
25:26if you're a leader?
25:28The most important thing,
25:30the most important thing
25:33is to assure the security of your people.
25:35And that means identifying danger in time
25:39and acting against it.
25:41That is a prerequisite
25:44for the survival
25:44of any biological organism.
25:47You have to identify danger in time
25:49and act in time against it.
25:51You either fight or flight.
25:52These are the two options you have.
25:54Where can you flee?
25:55Nowhere.
25:56Because Iran can reach
25:57any part of the world.
25:58So you have to,
25:59at a certain point,
26:00fight.
26:00And this is the juncture
26:02where we've reached in time.
26:04Not too late,
26:05but in time.
26:07I just will encourage
26:09all those who agree
26:10with what President Trump is saying,
26:13with what I'm saying,
26:14to act.
26:15I didn't have to convince
26:16President Trump of anything.
26:18He didn't need any convincing.
26:21He acted,
26:22as a great leader does,
26:24to protect his country
26:25and to protect the future.
26:28Next question.
26:28Alex Trayman from JNS.
26:30JNS, right behind you.
26:31Yes.
26:32Mr. Prime Minister,
26:34Hezbollah has opened up
26:35another front
26:36against Israel,
26:37launching rockets
26:38against Israeli civilians.
26:40Now ground troops
26:41are inside Lebanon.
26:43Is there any hesitancy
26:44toward launching
26:44a full ground operation
26:46to eradicate Hezbollah?
26:48And what would
26:48eradicating Hezbollah do
26:50to transform Israel-Lebanon relations
26:52and the greater Middle East?
26:54Look, Alex,
26:54I can't divulge
26:56our battle plans.
26:58Obviously, Hezbollah
26:59is not what Hezbollah had been.
27:01I said in my opening remarks
27:02in Hebrew
27:03that they're,
27:04you know,
27:05they were talking about
27:06150,000 rockets
27:07and missiles
27:09that they had,
27:10ballistic missiles.
27:12They had thousands
27:13of Ridwan terrorists
27:15right at our,
27:17right next to our fence,
27:19underground,
27:20ready to invade.
27:21And we knocked them back.
27:22We destroyed the bulk
27:23of their missile capacity
27:25in six hours.
27:26We knocked out Nasrallah.
27:28We destroyed the,
27:31all the Hamas,
27:32or rather,
27:33all the Ridwan infrastructure
27:35right next to our border.
27:36We now have
27:37a security corridor,
27:38a security zone
27:39that we're,
27:41that is there
27:42that prevents
27:42this kind of invasion.
27:44And we have plans
27:45for the future.
27:46Obviously,
27:46our number one effort
27:47is geared towards Iran.
27:50If the regime goes,
27:51you know that
27:52Hezbollah goes.
27:53But in any case,
27:54we're devising our plans
27:56in such a way
27:57that we could
27:59remove the sled as well.
28:01Final question
28:02from Jeremy Diamond
28:03at CNN.
28:05Mr. Prime Minister,
28:06Jeremy Diamond,
28:06CNN.
28:07Nice to see you.
28:09You've assassinated
28:10Iran's supreme leader
28:11and dozens of other
28:13senior Iranian officials.
28:14The result of that
28:15so far
28:15has been the appointment
28:16of a new supreme leader
28:17considered to be
28:18even more hardline
28:19than his father.
28:20The Iranian regime
28:22is not showing
28:23any signs of collapse
28:24as of now.
28:25So I wonder
28:26what do you say
28:26to those who say
28:27that killing
28:27those individuals
28:30is in fact
28:31empowering
28:31the hardliners
28:32in Iran.
28:33And are you confident
28:34that your strategy
28:35will still lead
28:36to regime change?
28:37And then secondly,
28:38if I may,
28:39you've also indicated
28:40today that
28:41you made a commitment
28:42to President Trump
28:42not to strike
28:43these oil and gas
28:45facilities in the future.
28:47Should President Trump
28:48come to you one day
28:49and say,
28:49oil prices are too high,
28:51it's time to end this war,
28:52will you listen to him
28:53and do you need
28:55the United States
28:56in order to continue
28:57this campaign alone?
28:59Was that a single question?
29:02Jeremy really hogged it.
29:04But I'll answer your questions.
29:09I'm not sure
29:10who's running Iran right now.
29:13Munchtaba,
29:16the replacement Ayatollah,
29:18has not shown his face.
29:22Have you seen him?
29:23We haven't.
29:25And we can't vouch
29:27exactly what is happening there.
29:29There is a cloud here
29:34that's not clear.
29:35What we see is that
29:37there is a lot of tensions
29:40inside the people
29:43who are edging for the top.
29:44It's not a uniform position.
29:47You see that sometimes
29:48with the contradictory
29:49orders that are given.
29:51And, you know,
29:52they do one thing
29:53and then they withdraw.
29:57And there is a lot of uncertainty.
30:07We've found that that can have an effect.
30:09The removal of
30:12of
30:13sorry,
30:14of Nasrallah
30:15has never been really
30:18has never really been replaced
30:20because some people
30:21are not replaceable.
30:23I think the authority
30:25and the hold that
30:27Khamenei has had
30:28is not going to be
30:29translated to anyone.
30:30Not to Munchtaba if he's there.
30:31And not to anyone else.
30:33We've found that that
30:33can have an effect.
30:34But I think
30:34the removal of
30:37of
30:39sorry,
30:39of Nasrallah
30:40has never been really
30:43has never really been replaced
30:45because some people
30:46are not replaceable.
30:48I think the authority
30:50and the hold
30:51that
30:52Khamenei has had
30:53is not going to be
30:54translated to anyone.
30:55Not to Munchtaba if he's there.
30:56And not to anyone else.
30:59But I think this is part
31:00of the effort
31:01to
31:03to crack the regime.
31:04It's not going to happen
31:05in one day.
31:06We're 20 days into
31:07into this war.
31:08Yes.
31:09Yes.
31:09We're seeing cracks.
31:10We're seeing cracks
31:12and we're trying to propagate them
31:13as fast as we can.
31:15Not only in the top command.
31:16We're seeing cracks in the field.
31:18You know,
31:19it's sort of like
31:20a hollowed out
31:21rotten
31:23piece of wood
31:24that's holding on the outside.
31:25But there's a lot of
31:26rot inside.
31:27We're seeing
31:29some defections.
31:30We're seeing fear
31:31and trepidation
31:32in the IRGC units
31:34that are manning
31:35the
31:36ballistic missiles.
31:38You know why?
31:39Because they're afraid to die.
31:41They're not
31:41they're not all suicidal.
31:43In fact,
31:43most of them are not.
31:44So we're seeing cracks.
31:46But
31:49we're going to hit them
31:49again and again.
31:50The minimum thing
31:51we want to do is
31:52again erase the
31:54industrial capacity
31:55that they had
31:55to produce these weapons.
31:57They'll have to build it
31:58from a start
31:59and that's very hard.
32:00It's very hard to do
32:01underground too.
32:03They're not going to be able
32:04to just take the pieces
32:05and move them below
32:06below the earth.
32:07It's going to be a lot
32:08harder for them.
32:10but ideally
32:11if it cracks enough
32:13and with some other things
32:15that I won't get into
32:16yes,
32:17the regime could change.
32:18Is it guaranteed?
32:19No.
32:20And
32:20is it up to the Iranian people
32:22in the final accounting
32:23to
32:25make use
32:26of the conditions
32:26that we're doing
32:27in
32:28weakening this regime?
32:30We'll see.
32:31I cannot tell you.
32:32They're very brave
32:33by the way.
32:33I don't come
32:35and criticize them
32:35in any way.
32:36I think they're very brave.
32:37I think they've suffered
32:38enormously.
32:39And the question is
32:41will we have a meeting ground
32:43between the weakening
32:43of the regime
32:44and the rising of the people
32:46in many ways
32:47that could develop?
32:49We'll see.
32:51On the oil and gas
32:53questions,
32:53I can only tell you this.
32:55Look,
32:56I don't think
32:58any two leaders
32:59have been as coordinated
33:00as President Trump and I.
33:02He's the leader.
33:04I'm
33:06his ally.
33:07America is the leader.
33:09Israel is,
33:10as the
33:11national security
33:13memorandum
33:13described us
33:14I think a month ago,
33:16six months ago,
33:17six weeks ago,
33:18I think,
33:18something like that,
33:18they called Israel
33:20the model ally.
33:22That's how they call it,
33:23the model ally.
33:25It's not a superpower,
33:26but America is seeking
33:27around the world,
33:29and you hear it
33:30from the
33:33speeches of President Trump
33:34and others
33:34in the administration.
33:36They say,
33:36where are you?
33:38You know,
33:39we've helped you
33:39all these years.
33:40Where are you
33:41when we're doing something
33:42that is as important,
33:43at least as important for you
33:44as it is important for us?
33:46And yet one country
33:47is there
33:48and against all the
33:49vilifications
33:50that are leveled
33:51at Israel,
33:52Israel is
33:53sponging off America
33:54and all that.
33:55No, it's not.
33:56It's not.
33:57Israel is
33:58a brave country,
34:01a resolute country
34:01with an incredible army,
34:04incredible soldiers,
34:05incredible courage,
34:06and we're fighting
34:07alongside the United States
34:09when the chips are down.
34:11We're fighting
34:11with the United States.
34:13We're fighting
34:14for a common goal.
34:16So I can tell you
34:18that that's the
34:19most important coordination.
34:20But in practice,
34:22President Trump
34:22and I speak regularly.
34:24You know,
34:25we discuss things.
34:27Our staff discuss things.
34:28Our militaries
34:29are in close coordination
34:30as never before.
34:32But ultimately,
34:33President Trump
34:34makes his own decisions.
34:36And do I respect them?
34:38Yes, I do.
34:38The question is
34:39whether you would
34:40or could continue
34:41the war
34:41without...
34:41Just one question,
34:43Jeremy.
34:44Could you without
34:44the United States,
34:45without the refueling capabilities,
34:47for example?
34:47We're going to close.
34:48Thank you so much.
34:49Thank you,
34:49Mr. Prime Minister.
34:50Thank you,
34:51everyone,
34:51for your questions today.
35:00Thank you,
35:02everyone.
35:08Israeli Prime Minister
35:09Benjamin Netanyahu
35:10speaking there,
35:11fielding questions
35:12from reporters.
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