Netanyahu calls on Iranian citizens to seize 'opportunity' for regime change

Just hours pursuing Israel’s strikes connected Iran’s atomic and subject facilities, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a nonstop entreaty to the Iranian radical and said: "This is your accidental to basal up [to the regime]."

The regime’s lasting not lone with the planetary community, amid its immense enactment of state-sponsored terrorism, which has impacted neighboring nations from Syria and Yemen to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, coupled with years of interior unrest, could mean authorities alteration is connected the horizon.

"We are successful the midst of 1 of the top subject operations successful history," Netanyahu said Friday. "The Islamic regime, which has oppressed you for astir 50 years, threatens to destruct our country."

In this representation made from a video released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a connection Tuesday, March 18, 2025, successful Tel Aviv, Israel. (Israeli Government Press Office via AP)

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The Israeli person said Jerusalem’s extremity successful hitting Iran’s apical subject targets is to thwart the atomic and rocket threats that Iran poses towards the Jewish nation, which helium argued weakens the authorities and poses a unsocial accidental for dissidents within. 

Minority groups marque up immoderate 50% of the Iranian population, and immoderate Iranian specialists person argued that if the number groups, which are predominant targets of oppression successful Iran, were to unite against the regime, they could play a captious role successful toppling the regime.

Iran has faced expanding absorption since the decease of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman, who successful September 2022 was arrested by Iran's morality constabulary and aboriginal died successful a infirmary owed to her injuries.

In this photograph taken by an idiosyncratic not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP extracurricular Iran, Iranians protests the decease of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini aft she was detained by the morality police, successful Tehran, Oct. 1, 2022.  (The Associated Press)

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Amini’s decease sparked wide protests crossed the country, which Iran brutally clapped backmost astatine and continues to execute those arrested during the demonstrations. 

Fox News Digital was told by Yigal Carmon, President of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), that members of the Ahwazis, a number radical successful south-western Iran, which marque up 6-8% of the population, person already been arrested by the authorities amid its fears different interior rebellion could brew alongside warfare with Israel.

It is unclear if immoderate demonstrations person yet begun oregon if their arrests were pre-emptively carried out. 

"A authorities alteration volition beryllium supported by many," Carmon said. "The information is that lone the minorities tin bring a authorities alteration due to the fact that they are militarily organized."

"A conjugation of non-Persian taste groups could topple the authorities successful a fewer months," helium said. "Unlike the Persian anti-regime population, the non-Persian anti-regime colonisation is militarily organized."

People airy a occurrence during a protestation implicit the decease of Mahsa Amini, a pistillate who died aft being arrested by the Islamic Republic's "morality police", successful Tehran, Iran, connected Sept. 21, 2022. (West Asia News Agency)

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Other number groups, similar the Kurds, who marque up 10%-15% of Iran’s colonisation and who unrecorded chiefly successful the northwestern borderline areas adjacent Iraq and Turkey, arsenic good arsenic the Baloch people, who encompass different 5% of the colonisation and unrecorded on Iran’s southeast borderline with Pakistan, besides person a agelong past of opposing the regime, though they person besides suffered brutal consequences. 

"It has ne'er been weaker. This is your accidental to basal up and fto your voices beryllium heard. Woman, Life, Freedom Zan, Zendegi, Azadi," Netanyahu said.  "As I said yesterday and galore times before, Israel's combat is not against the Iranian people. 

"Our combat is against the murderous Islamic authorities that oppresses and impoverishes you," helium added.