Katz says he instructed IDF to ‘destabilize’ Iranian regime with intensified strikes against it

Defense Minister Israel Katz says he has instructed the IDF to “intensify strikes on regime targets in Tehran” to “destabilize” the Iranian regime.

“We must strike all symbols of the regime and its mechanisms of oppression, such as the Basij, as well as the base of the regime’s power, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” Katz says during an assessment this morning with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and other top officers this morning.

Katz says Israel must bring about “a mass evacuation of the population from Tehran, in order to destabilize the regime and increase deterrence in response to missile fire on Israel’s home front, while continuing to target facilities and scientists to thwart Iran’s nuclear program, until all objectives of the operation are fully achieved.”