Extended interview: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister Netanyahu asserts that the 'war with Iran' is far from over. Key objectives include removing enriched nuclear material, dismantling enrichment sites, and neutralizing Iran's extensive network of proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas, which continue to pose significant threats with ballistic missiles.

Netanyahu states, 'it's not over because there's still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran. There is still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that Iran supports.'

Netanyahu believes that coordinated military and economic pressure from the US and Israel has significantly weakened the Iranian regime, leading to internal fissures and debates among hardliners about the sustainability of their current path. This weakness is seen as a potential precursor to regime change.

Netanyahu claims, 'I think it's at the weakest point it's been since the since it hijacked the Iranian people into since 1979... there are fissures in the in the regime... they've been hit very hard by our joint efforts our joint military efforts.'

Netanyahu advocates for Israel to phase out all US financial support, including military aid, over the next decade. He envisions a new relationship based on joint projects in intelligence, weapons development, and missile defense, where both countries contribute equally, leveraging Israel's booming high-tech economy and talent.

Netanyahu states, 'I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have... I think it's time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support and go from aid to partnership.'

Netanyahu identifies social media as a critical and manipulated battlefield where foreign adversaries, using bot farms and fake accounts, actively work to undermine American sympathy for Israel and sow division. He acknowledges Israel's exposure on this front and the need for new strategies to combat disinformation.

Netanyahu explains, 'We have several countries that basically manipulated social media with bot farms, with fake addresses to break the American sympathy to Israel... While we were fighting the physical military battle on seven battlefields... we were completely exposed on the eighth front, the media war, really the the social media war.'

Beyond immediate defense, Israel's strategic achievements include degrading Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, crippling military industries, and eliminating top nuclear scientists. Crucially, operations over Iranian skies broke the 'barrier of fear' and the regime's 'mask of invincibility,' signaling a new era of direct engagement.

Netanyahu highlights, 'the degradation of their nuclear program, the degradation of their ballistic missile program, the degradation of their military industries, the knocking out of their military command and political command.' He also notes, 'We broke the barrier of fear... We had our brave pilots and your brave pilots over the skies of Tehran, over the skies of Iran. that changed. That broke that mask of invincibility.'