Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel is working to remove Iran’s government, according to comments reported by Middle East Eye from an interview with Israeli television channel i24NEWS.
“All of our systems under my direction are working to overthrow this regime and defeat it,” Netanyahu said. The statement presented the overthrow of the Iranian government as an objective being pursued under his leadership. No further details were provided in the source material about the systems involved, the actions being undertaken or a timetable for that goal.
During the same interview, Netanyahu addressed Israel’s military presence in the Gaza Strip. He said Israel now controls more than 60 percent of the besieged Palestinian territory, Middle East Eye reported. The source material did not provide additional information about how that level of control was assessed or which areas were included.
Netanyahu made the Gaza comments after visiting Israeli soldiers in the territory earlier on Wednesday. He said he was “very much satisfied” with what he had seen during the visit. No further account of the visit, including its location or the units involved, was included in the report.
The remarks linked two central areas of Israeli policy in a single interview: the stated effort to bring down Iran’s government and Israel’s military operations and territorial control in Gaza. Netanyahu described both matters in direct terms, claiming that state systems were being used against the Iranian government while also asserting that Israeli forces controlled a majority of the Gaza Strip.
Middle East Eye reported the comments in a live-blog update. The supplied report did not include a response from Iran to Netanyahu’s statement, nor did it provide any reaction to his assertion about Israeli control in Gaza. It also gave no additional explanation of what Netanyahu meant by defeating Iran’s government beyond his statement to i24NEWS.
Reporting attribution: based on reporting by Middle East Eye — original source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-says-israel-working-overthrow-irans-government.