Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Friday that he is observing deep cracks forming within Iran’s new leadership structure, a development he linked to Iran’s accelerating military losses and the elimination of its uranium enrichment and ballistic missile capabilities. He rejected reports of Israeli responsibility for drawing the United States into the war, calling them fake news. Netanyahu predicted the conflict would end sooner than people expected, citing both military and political pressures bearing down on Tehran.
Netanyahu’s description of his partnership with Trump was warm and detailed. He called it the most coordinated relationship between two heads of government he had seen, while emphasizing Trump’s role as the senior partner in the alliance. Netanyahu revealed that Trump had brought his own independent and sophisticated understanding of Iran’s nuclear threat to the partnership, to the point of explaining certain dangers to Netanyahu rather than being briefed by him.
The prime minister confirmed that Israel struck the South Pars gas compound alone, a significant operation against a critical Iranian energy installation. He also disclosed Trump’s request for a pause in further gas infrastructure strikes, treating it as a natural element of close allied communication. Netanyahu maintained that Israel’s capacity for independent military action remained fully intact throughout these diplomatic exchanges.
On the Strait of Hormuz, Netanyahu was blunt. He called Iran’s closure threats blackmail and said they would fail. He proposed overland pipeline routes from the Arabian Peninsula to Israeli and Mediterranean ports as a permanent structural solution to Hormuz dependency. Netanyahu framed this as both a wartime necessity and a long-term regional investment.
Netanyahu’s final observations concerned Iran’s visible leadership dysfunction. Mojtaba, the anticipated new supreme leader, had not surfaced publicly during the conflict. Netanyahu said he did not know who was running Iran and observed intense competition among power-hungry factions within the regime. This chaos, he argued, was compressing the timeline toward the war’s end.