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In an interview with Israeli channel i24NEWS on Wednesday, September 2, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is actively working to overthrow the Iranian government, stating that "all of our systems under my direction are working to overthrow this regime and defeat it." The remarks mark one of the most explicit public statements by an Israeli leader about regime-change ambitions toward Tehran amid the ongoing escalation between the US, Israel, and Iran. Netanyahu made the comments after visiting Israeli soldiers in Gaza, where he said he was satisfied with the progress of operations there. His statement on Iran signals a hardening of Israeli strategy beyond military strikes toward explicit political destabilization of the Islamic Republic, raising the stakes in the broader confrontation.