Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed unambiguous confidence in Israel’s victory on Friday, declaring that Iran’s military and political structure was crumbling simultaneously under the weight of twenty days of conflict and internal power struggles. He announced that Iran had lost all uranium enrichment and ballistic missile capabilities and rejected claims about Israel dragging the US into the war. Netanyahu predicted the conflict would conclude sooner than most people believed.
The prime minister was candid and detailed in describing the Trump-Israel partnership. He called their coordination historically unprecedented and framed Trump as the alliance’s leader. Netanyahu disclosed that Trump had brought an independently formed and sophisticated understanding of Iran’s nuclear threat to the table, enriching their shared strategic thinking rather than simply receiving Israeli intelligence.
Netanyahu confirmed Israel struck the South Pars gas compound alone and disclosed Trump’s request to pause further strikes on Iranian gas facilities. He presented both facts with transparency, treating them as natural elements of a close and communicative alliance. Netanyahu was clear throughout that Israel’s right to independent military decision-making remained fully intact.
On the Hormuz question, Netanyahu dismissed Iran’s closure threats as blackmail that would not work. He proposed overland pipeline routes from the Arabian Peninsula to Israeli and Mediterranean ports as a lasting structural solution. Netanyahu argued this would permanently neutralize the Hormuz chokepoint as an Iranian strategic weapon.
Netanyahu ended with an assessment of Iran’s leadership breakdown. He noted Mojtaba had not appeared publicly during the conflict and admitted he was unsure who was governing the country. Netanyahu pointed to the fierce competition among Tehran’s ruling factions and concluded that this instability, combined with military losses, was accelerating the war’s conclusion.