Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday claimed sweeping gains from Israel’s ongoing and recent military campaigns, announcing the formation of new regional alliances against Iran and promising that the Islamic Republic’s regime will “sooner or later” fall.

“We are creating new alliances with important countries in the region,” Netanyahu said, declining to identify the states involved. “I hope that soon, I will be able to tell you more about these important pacts.”

Netanyahu framed the current war as the continuation of a campaign begun last June in what he called Operation Rising Lion, describing the two conflicts as complementary blows to Iran’s military ambitions.

“In Operation Rising Lion, we removed from upon us the immediate threat of Iran arming itself with a nuclear weapon and many ballistic missiles,” he said. “And in the current war, we brought a complementary achievement, by smashing the industrial capability of the regime to produce these tools of destruction.”

He noted that Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei — killed on the first day of the current conflict — had sought to bury Iran’s nuclear and missile programs underground to shield them from Israeli strikes.

Netanyahu then enumerated what he called ten major achievements of Israel’s recent wars, among them the establishment of IDF-patrolled “security zones” in Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon. He also declared that Hezbollah, which has been firing rockets and missiles into northern Israel for the past month, no longer poses “a strategic threat” to the country.

In an apparent edit at the end of the video, Netanyahu turned sharply toward domestic critics. “What happened to you?” he said, addressing the press and opposition. “Raise the morale of our side, not of the enemy.”

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