Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described Israel's recent confrontation with Iran as a "great victory," during the first cabinet meeting held since the two countries agreed to a ceasefire.
“We achieved a great victory in the campaign against an enemy that came to destroy us,” Netanyahu told ministers, Caliber.Az reports via Israeli media.
The prime minister claimed that the military operation succeeded in neutralizing two immediate existential threats to Israel’s security.
“We believed it was essential to undermine the Iranian regime during the time available to us. Had the assessments indicated further opportunity, we would have continued,” he said.
Despite the cessation of hostilities, Netanyahu signaled that lasting change in Iran must originate internally.
“Such a shift must come from within,” he noted, alluding to the prospect of internal unrest or reform within the Islamic Republic.
By Naila Huseynova
Source: caliber.az
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