Naftali Bennett said Iran’s regime is “destined to fall” in an interview with Piers Morgan last night.

“It is a corrupt, old, unconnected regime, incompetent, and despised by its people,” Bennett said, speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored. “The Iranian people will be free again, the question is how soon”.

The Former Israeli Prime Minister also called on the West to help “accelerate” the demise of Iran’s “horrible regime” by “taking economic sanctions”. “The Iranian regime is the centre of terror,” Bennett said. “It has to be toppled”.

Speaking following the high-profile assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, fears are growing internationally that all-out war will break out in the Middle East. Questioned by Morgan, Bennett said Israel was simply “hitting back” as part of a “defensive war”.

“Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah want to annihilate Israel,” Bennett said, “we are fighting back on a war they started”. The former Prime Minister told Morgan Israel was the “wave-breaker” protecting the West from Iran-sponsored terror.

Piers Morgan also questioned Bennett on Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza, and the number of civilian casualties. Since October, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says deaths in the strip number almost 40,000. Bennett told Morgan that the “actual numbers [of those killed] are factually very low compared to other urban warfare”.

“We’re going to fight until we win,” Bennett stated. “I can tell you that we are resolute,” he said. “We're not going to sit with a stopwatch and say, you know, it's been 10 months now we stopped, and we let a genocidal regime continue trying to kill Israel”.

“We have to defeat Hamas,” Bennet explained. “We’re fighting a war against total evil that wants to annihilate us and wants to annihilate your way of living, the free world”.

Bennett also told Morgan his only criticism regarding Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza was its lack of intensity. “We’re not doing this quickly enough,” he said. “We should not give into that [international] pressure to slow down”.

Morgan finished the interview by asking Bennett what Israel’s plans were for a post-war Gaza. “We have a fairly coherent plan for a new Gaza,” Bennett said. “It’s a bright future”.

“The necessary condition is to fully defeat Hamas,” Bennett said, “just like Nazi Germany was fully defeated, and then we will have security and defence responsibility for the foreseeable suture so that Hamas cannot arise again”. Bennett told Morgan Israel had no interest in governing the civilian population in Gaza, and that they were “in the process of finding competent civilian government” for Gaza.