Speaking at an Israeli Air Force pilots course graduation ceremony, Defense Minister Israel Katz threatens Iran.
“The graduation ceremony is a direct message to the dictator [Ali] Khamenei and the gang of Ayatollahs in Iran: Israel’s long arm will reach you in Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, and anywhere from which you try to threaten and harm Israel,” Katz says.
“There is no place where you can hide. If we need to return, we will return with even greater force,” he says.
Also at the ceremony, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir says the recent war in Iran was “a moment in which we proved, to ourselves and to the world, that when the people of Israel are threatened, we know how to unite, to act, and to strike with precision, power and responsibility.”
Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar, in his speech, says: “We bridged a challenge of 1,800 kilometers and turned Iran from a ‘third-circle’ country into a ‘first-circle’ country. The campaign is not over. We are prepared to act as needed.”
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