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Netanyahu threatens to assassinate Iran’s new supreme leader
Financial Associated Press According to CCTV International News, on the evening of March 12, local time, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu held his first press conference since launching a large-scale air strike against Iran. Almost at the same time as he spoke, air defense sirens sounded in many places, including Tel Aviv in central Israel, and a new round of Iranian missiles struck. However, it is unclear where exactly Netanyahu held the press conference.
Netanyahu used the occasion to defend his joint military strike with the United States against Iran, making a veiled threat to assassinate Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mujtaba Khamenei and acknowledging that joint Israeli-U.S. airstrikes would not necessarily lead to the collapse of the Iranian regime.
Netanyahu said that after nearly two weeks of US-Israeli air strikes, Iran is “not what it used to be” and that both the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij militia “have suffered heavy losses.”
Asked what action Israel might take against Mujtaba Khamenei and Hezbollah leader Naim Qasim, Netanyahu said he would not “issue life insurance policies” to them and said he “does not intend to detail plans or actions to be taken here.”
Asked whether Israel was arming the Iranian opposition and whether the collapse of the Iranian regime might not be achieved, Netanyahu said, “If not, it will be in a weakened state.” He said: “I will not go into details about the actions we are taking. We are creating favorable conditions for the overthrow of the regime, but I will not deny… The collapse of the regime has to come from within, and we can help.”
Netanyahu claims that Iran and Hezbollah no longer pose the threat they once were. He also revealed that he and U.S. President Trump “talk to each other every day” and the communication between the two parties is “frank and open.”
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