Hebrew → English transcript

It tried to grip us in a choke ring: Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Assad regime in Syria, the militias in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, Iran itself.

Meaning, they wanted to choke us and we are choking them. They threatened us with annihilation, and now they are fighting to survive.

We have prepared for them, we still have more to do and I will elaborate on that in a moment, but I want to start specifically with Iran itself, right at the head of the octopus.

Because I spent, I spent, I devoted a significant part of my life to preventing one thing, that this regime of terror would obtain nuclear weapons

with which it seeks to annihilate the Jewish state and bring an end to Jewish history. I spoke about this in Congress and at the UN and in various parliaments.

I authorized all kinds of operations, most of them covert, to delay them, and indeed we did delay them. But the world did not listen. Many, many said, it is not so terrible, it is even not so terrible for Iran to have nuclear weapons.

I heard those voices not only outside, I heard them even among us. And I, as the prime minister of Israel, the head of the Jewish state, the one and only, could not accept that.

And the big change came that evening with “With Dogs,” when I informed you that our daring pilots were flying in the skies of Iran and hitting targets all across Iran.

We were the first ones to break through the barrier of fear, the fear of acting inside Iran itself. And I remember my feeling, such excitement, such pride, chills, and I know that you all experienced it too.

We were the first to act because we knew what was at stake.

But if I had told you a year ago that our male and female pilots would be flying in Iran,