Prime Minister Netanyahu, in an interview, described the Iranian regime as reliant on hundreds of thousands of enforcers who kill in broad daylight and at night to stay in power. The remarks are the latest in a series of Israeli statements highlighting internal repression in Iran.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an interview published Monday, described the Iranian regime as surviving through brutal internal repression, relying on 'a few hundred thousand goons who kill, murder in broad daylight, and at night they murder their own people.'
The remarks were made in response to a question about why the regime in Tehran remains standing despite widespread dissatisfaction. Netanyahu's characterization echoes a pattern of Israeli leadership commentary on Iran's internal crackdown. As The Zioneer has previously reported, the regime has arrested thousands on collaboration charges and launched a wave of executions targeting activists and dissidents, with human rights groups accusing authorities of using national security pretexts to crush dissent.
The full context of the interview — the outlet and specific questions — was not provided in the available dispatch. Netanyahu's framing places Israel's security critique of Iran alongside a human-rights argument, a rhetorical shift from earlier statements that focused more narrowly on the nuclear threat and regional aggression.
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