Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses Iranian Citizens: "Your tyrants spent more than $30 billion supporting Assad in Syria. After just 11 days of fighting, his regime has collapsed"
"Citizens of Iran, As we witness history unfolding before our eyes, I can only imagine what you are feeling right now.
Your Tyrants Spent More Than $30 Billion Supporting Assad in Syria. Today, after just 11 days of fighting, his regime has collapsed.
Your Tyrants Spent Billions Supporting Hamas in Gaza. Today, their regime is a shambles.
Your Tyrants Spent More Than $20 Billion Supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon. Within a few weeks, most of Hezbollah's leaders, its missiles, and its thousands of terrorists have gone up in smoke.
The money your Tyrants stole from you has literally gone up in smoke.
You must be seething with rage as you Imagine the new roads, schools, and hospitals that could have been built with the tens of billions of dollars your dictators have wasted supporting terrorists who lose time and time and time again.
Do you know why Iran’s tyrants keep losing? It’s not just because they are heartless and cruel. They are. It’s because they want to conquer other peoples, and they do so in order to impose fundamentalist tyranny on the Middle East and the entire world.
The only thing Israel wants is to defend our country. But when we do that, we are defending civilization against barbarism.
The historic events we are witnessing today are a chain reaction of the crushing of Hamas, the elimination of Hezbollah, and the defeat of Nasrallah—the blows we have dealt to the Iranian regime’s axis of terror. All of these things came, as President Trump noted this week, “because of Israel and its successes in warfare.”
Let me be clear: Israel wants peace. We want peace with everyone who truly wants peace with us. I have no doubt that you, the citizens of Iran, know this.
I know that just as we want peace with you, you want peace with us. However, you suffer under the rule of a regime that enslaves you and threatens us.
Do you know what this regime is truly afraid of? It is afraid of you - the Iranian people.
And one day, I know this, one day this will change. One day Iran will be free.
Women, Life, Freedom - زن، زندگی، ازادی (زن, زندگی, ازادی).
This is the future of Iran.
This is a future of peace.
And I have no doubt that we will realize this future together - much sooner than people think.
I know and believe that we will make the Middle East a beacon of prosperity, progress and peace.
Thank you."