The signs are growing that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “is no more,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says in a video statement to the Israeli public.
He says that this morning Israel eliminated IRGC commanders, senior Iranian regime officials, senior nuclear officials, and that in the coming days, “we will hit thousands of targets of the terror regime.”
He says that Israel will create the conditions for the Iranian people to “free itself from the chains of dictatorship.”
The operation against Iran “will continue as long as is necessary,” says Netanyahu, “and stamina is necessary.”
He thanks US President Donald Trump for his “historic leadership.”
“He is a leader who keeps his word,” says Netanyahu.
The premier says the operation will “lead to peace, true peace.”
Netanyahu says Israel went to war to “fundamentally change” the situation in which Iran was on its way to a nuclear weapon that would enable it to drastically increase its threats against its neighbors.
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