Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israeli forces had \u201celiminated the dictator Ali Khamenei\u201d along with dozens of senior officials of Iran\u2019s regime during a statement delivered from the roof of the Kirya, Israel\u2019s defense headquarters.<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday, we eliminated the dictator Khamenei. Along with him, dozens of senior officials from the oppressive regime were eliminated,\u201d Netanyahu said after a meeting with the Minister of Defense, the Chief of Staff, and the Director of Mossad. He added that he had issued instructions to continue the offensive.<\/p>\n
According to Netanyahu, Israeli forces are \u201cnow striking at the heart of Tehran with increasing intensity,\u201d a campaign he said will \u201cincrease further in the days to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister also acknowledged the toll of the conflict on Israel, calling recent days \u201cpainful\u201d and offering condolences to the families of victims in Tel Aviv and Beit Shemesh, while wishing a speedy recovery to those injured.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu emphasized that the operation mobilizes \u201cthe full power of the Israel Defense Forces, like never before,\u201d in order to \u201cguarantee our existence and our future.\u201d He also highlighted U.S. support, noting \u201cthe assistance of my friend, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and of the American military.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis combination of forces allows us to do what I have hoped to accomplish for 40 years: strike the terrorist regime right in the face,\u201d Netanyahu concluded. \u201cI promised it \u2014 and we will keep our word.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israeli forces had \u201celiminated the dictator Ali Khamenei\u201d along with dozens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-316554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}