Netanyahu at Soroka, asked about killing Khamenei, says no one in Iran is immune: ‘Let actions speak for themselves’

Touring Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba after it was hit by an Iranian missile earlier today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicates he has not ruled out a strike on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Asked whether Khamenei is a dead man walking, he replies: “I gave instructions that no one is immune. I prefer not to deal with [making] headlines and to let actions speak for themselves.”

“During a war,” says Netanyahu, “words have to be chosen with care, and actions with precision.”

He adds that he expects this “from my ministers as well.” This is an implied criticism of Defense Minister Israel Katz, who has been publicly threatening Khamenei.

“All the options are open,” Netanyahu adds. “It’s best not to speak about this in the press,” he stresses.

Netanyahu says that US involvement in the war “is a decision for President Trump.”

“He will do what is good for America, and I will do what’s good for Israel,” says Netanyahu, adding that the US president “knows the game.”

He stresses that Israel has the ability to carry out the entire mission by itself if needed: “At the end of this operation, there will be no nuclear threat on Israel, and there won’t be a ballistic threat.”

In a statement sure to be criticized by political opponents, Netanyahu says that “all of us are paying a personal price” in the war, “and that hasn’t missed my family as well — my son canceled a wedding.”