Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed on Thursday that his country would kill Iranian highest leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that this was possible during the 12 -day war. But “It wasn’t realistic in the end,” he said.
“I estimate that if Khamenei was on our eyes, we would pull him out,” Katz said in an interview with Israeli public television.
“But Khamenei understood it, went underground to very large depths and interrupted contacts with the commanders who replaced the commanders who were excluded, so it wasn’t realistic in the end,” Katz quoted Reuters.
Katz allegedly repeated that Israel was actively looking for Khamenei during the war.
“We searched a lot,” Channel 13 said according to Times of India, explaining that Israel’s goal was not a regime change, but destabilizing Iranian leadership and applying pressure in the middle of the conflict.
Asked if Israel was looking for approval to target Khamenei, Katz said, “We don’t need permission for these things.”
US President Donald Trump also threatened Khamenei’s life during the conflict. On June 17, Trump wrote on the social media: “We know exactly where the so -called” highest leader “hides … We will not pull it out (kill!), At least not yet.”
A few days later, however, Trump said that the change in the regime was not appropriate, but demanded “unconditional surrender”.
Recently, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei strongly criticized Trump’s challenge to the Iranian surrender and described it as “too big to come out of his mouth”.
Israel killed several of the best Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists on June 13 at the beginning of the war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah and US President Donald Trump at various times during the Aviation War suggested in danger, because the regime change could be the result of the war that ended on Tuesday.
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