Iran Israel War News: In a first since the recent escalation in tensions, Israel’s Defence Minister Thursday said its military was actively planning to “eliminate” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei but did not go through with it as the “opportunity never presented itself”.
“If he had been in our sights, we would have taken him out,” Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz was quoted as saying by Times of Israel in his interviews with three major Israeli television news programmes — Channel 13, Kan and Channel 12. He was speaking days after the US-backed Israel-Iran ceasefire came into effect following the 12-day conflict.
Katz also said that the Israeli military was unable to locate Khamenei once he reportedly went into hiding in a bunker. “Khamenei understood this, went very deep underground, broke off contact with the commanders… so in the end it wasn’t realistic,” Katz told Kan.
