If the repressive theocracy in Iran is to be toppled, it will only be done by the people, but attacks on Tehran’s nuclear facilities by Israel and the U.S. cracked the Islamic Republic’s “veneer of invincibility,” Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Newsmax on Wednesday.

“It has to come from the people,” Netanyahu said during a special edition of “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE” from Jerusalem. “It wasn’t one of our old war aims, but it could be one of its results because I think that the picture that they had of this overpowering bullying force [of a] fanatical regime that can sweep everything in its way, I think that’s been cracked by our action, by the fact that President [Donald] Trump made this bold decision to join us.

“It just cracked this veneer of invincibility, and that applies not only to the region and to the prospects of destroying completely, the Iranian axis, the terror axis, at opening the path for peace, but also inside Iran itself because the Iranian people yearn for freedom. They yearn to be free from almost half a century of this terror tyranny, and that could very well happen. But it’s really up to those people themselves.”

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