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‘Justice has been served’: Katz celebrates IDF killing of Khamenei
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Defense Minister Israel Katz says “justice has been served” after an IDF airstrike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran yesterday.
“The tyrant Khamenei was eliminated in the opening strike of Operation Roaring Lion, along with other senior figures in the Iranian terror regime’s stronghold,” says Katz in a statement.
“Whoever worked to destroy Israel was destroyed. Justice has been done, and the axis of evil sustained a crushing blow,” he says.
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