Assassinating Khamenei ‘not off limits,’ Israeli official tells the Wall Street Journal

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15 June 2025, 1:21 am

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Nava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) waves to the crowd in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, in Jerusalem, October 27, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

Assassinating Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is “not off limits” for Israel as it continues its strikes against Iranian nuclear and military sites, an Israeli official tells The Wall Street Journal.

Similarly, Channel 12’s Amit Segal says an Israeli political source told him, “Israel is not ruling out the possibility of eliminating Ali Khamenei, but it depends on many things.”

Israel is not ruling out the possibility of eliminating Ali Khamenei, but it depends on many things, an Israeli political source says.

— Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) June 14, 2025

The official speaking to the WSJ further states that “the war would only end either with Iran voluntarily dismantling its nuclear program or Israel making it impossible for Tehran to reconstitute it.”