https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-to-israeli-public-were-dismantling-the-iranian-axis-piece-by-piece/
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the significance of the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria and spoke of Israel’s progress in the “existential war” forced upon it during a nationally televised press conference on Monday, which ended in a fiery back-and-forth with reporters.
“Yesterday, a new chapter opened, a dramatic chapter, in the history of the Middle East,” the prime minister said. “The Assad regime in Syria, a central link in Iran’s axis of evil, has collapsed after 54 years.”
The billions Iran pumped into Syria to prop up Syrian President Bashar Assad’s tyrannical rule has “gone down the drain,” he noted.
That regime had spread hostility towards Israel, attacked Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and “served as an outpost of Iranian terrorism and as a conduit for weapons from Iran to Hezbollah,” he said.
Netanyahu took credit for the regime’s collapse—a “direct result” of the “heavy blows” Israel inflicted on Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
Israel has worked since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in the south on Oct. 7, 2023, to systematically “dismantle the axis of evil,” referring to Iran’s reach across the region via its proxies—a “path of terror from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea: from Iran to Iraq, from Iraq to Syria, and from Syria to Lebanon.”