‘Look up and listen to every buzz’: Katz renews warnings against Iran’s Khamenei

Defense Minister Israel Katz is renewing belligerent rhetoric against Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, whom he threatened with assassination during the 12-day Israel-Iran war in June.

“I suggest to Iranian dictator Khamenei that when he leaves his bunker, he occasionally lift his eyes to the sky and listen carefully to every buzz,” Katz writes on X, apparently referring to Israeli drone activity. The comment comes in response to what the minister says is a Hebrew-language graphic circulated by Tehran marking senior Israeli officials as assassination targets, including “Terror Minister Israel Katz.”

The graphic appears to be an ersatz version of an Israeli graphic used to announce its assassinations of senior Iranian officials during the war. It is unclear where it originated or how widespread it was before Katz republished it.

איראן מפרסמת את רשימת הבכירים בצמרת המדינית ביטחונית בישראל המיועדים לחיסול.
אני מציע לדיקטטור האיראני חמינאי שכשהוא יוצא מהבונקר שירים מידי פעם מבט לשמיים ויקשיב טוב לכל זמזום.
משתתפי "חתונה אדומה" מחכים לו שם. pic.twitter.com/Ojf8Km5Iay

— ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) August 11, 2025

In his tweet, Katz tells Khamenei that “participants of the ‘Red Wedding’ are waiting for him,” referencing a large-scale Israeli surprise attack in the opening hours of the war on June 13, in which some 30 senior military commanders, including the three most senior generals, were killed in near-simultaneous strikes in the Iranian capital, crippling Iran’s command and control and delaying its response for nearly 24 hours.

The name is meant to recall an infamous scene in the HBO series “Game of Thrones” in which several main characters were slain in a surprise attack.