Netanyahu: Israel achieved its war goals against Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an interview with an Australian news network that aired on Thursday, claimed: “We had a set of specific goals in the war with Iran. We were very clear that we wanted to hit nuclear sites, missile production centers, and a few other targets. When these goals were achieved, the war was over.”
These statements come at a time when, according to Iranian officials, the aggressor was ready for a ceasefire from the fourth day of the war, when it became clear that Israel would never achieve its goals. Even on the twelfth day, after the ceasefire was declared, the Iranian side fired the last missile.
After the ceasefire was declared, Iran also targeted the US Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which had played a role in Israel’s attacks on Iran.
The Israeli prime minister, who has been creating crises regularly over the past two years to avoid facing a domestic political crisis and possible dismissal, claimed that Washington, by intervening to establish a ceasefire, prevented Israel from completing its work against Iran during the 12-day war in June (June 13-July 23).
He stated, “We could have carried out another attack. So it was not as if they stopped us.”
Netanyahu, who knows very well that after escaping the quagmire of war with Iran and failing to achieve the goal of his policies towards Gaza, he will have to face his opponents in the Knesset and the Israeli judiciary, claimed: “Toppling the Iranian government was never part of Israel’s goals during the 12-day war; although it could have been one of the results of this war, it was not one of its goals.”
The Israeli prime minister, whose calculations about the people’s support for this regime and the United States during the 12-day war turned out to be completely wrong, said: “The issue of regime change in Iran depends on the people of this country, and they must decide in this regard.”
While the Zionist regime has never been a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and no inspections of its nuclear facilities are carried out, and at the same time it is the greatest threat to its neighbors, Netanyahu stated: Israel and the United States are monitoring and will monitor Iran’s efforts to rebuild what was destroyed in the 12-day war.
We will not entrust our security to anyone
In another part of this conversation about the developments in Gaza and the US plan for its future, Benjamin Netanyahu also stated: Israel will maintain its “comprehensive security position” in this strip and “will not entrust its security to anyone; neither in Gaza nor on any other front.”
This is while, according to Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan in Sharm el-Sheikh, foreign forces from 21 countries are to take control of security affairs in Gaza.
Netanyahu also clarified regarding the meeting of the head of the interim Syrian government, Ahmed Sharia, with Trump at the White House: I prefer to judge the new Syrian president based on ‘what he will actually do and the results.”
He added: Will Syria become a peaceful country? Will he remove the jihadists from the Syrian army? Will he work with me to create a demilitarized zone in southwestern Syria that borders the Golan Heights?
The Israeli prime minister continued: What should we do to support the Syrian Druze, who are brothers of the Israeli Druze?
Netanyahu emphasized that if southwestern Syria is demilitarized and permanent support is also established for the Druze, “then we can make progress in our relations.”