Netanyahu To IDF: 'Overthrow The Iranian Regime'

Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that his directive to the Israeli military is to "overthrow the regime in Iran" as he continues to ramp up his rhetoric in the days before the October 27 Israeli elections.

"My directive to the IDF, the Mossad, and the defense establishment… is to overthrow the regime in Iran," Netanyahu told a group of graduating IDF officers, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The Israeli leader went on to claim that Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is pursuing nuclear weapons, a claim he’s been making about the Islamic Republic for decades.

"The Iranian regime still has not learned its lesson. Mojtaba Khamenei decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and has released the safety catch, and Iran is once again trying to develop weapons of death," he said. "Iran is once again attempting to develop a nuclear bomb."

While both Netanyahu and President Trump continue to frame the conflict as being about preventing a nuclear-armed Iran, there was no evidence either before the June 2025 war or the current war that Tehran had decided to pursue nuclear weapons, and that was the READ MORE AT SOURCE »

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