Netanyahu addresses Iranians, says freedom and peace to come ‘sooner than people think’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed Iranians in a video message with assurances that his country wants peace and said Iran will be free much "sooner than people think," reported from TASS.

A video of his speech, with subtitles in Hebrew and Farsi, was posted to the prime minister’s accounts on X.

Turning to the latest developments in the region, Netanyahu expressed the view that Iran has failed in Lebanon and Syria, despite heavy spending on the effort.

"You know why Iran’s oppressors keep losing? It’s not only because they are incompetent and cruel - they are. It’s because they seek to conquer other nations, to impose fundamentalist tyranny on the Middle East, on the entire world. The only thing Israel seeks is to defend our state, but in so doing, we are defending civilization against barbarism," he said.

The prime minister described the current events as historical. They were set off, he said, by Israeli actions against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, among other things.

"And all this came, as President Trump pointed out this week, because of Israel and its fighting success," Netanyahu said.

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