Israel's Defense Minister publicly acknowledged for the first time that Israel was behind the operation that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a single source reports.
Defense Minister Israel Katz has confirmed that Israel was responsible for the elimination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to a single source. The statement, reported just before 11:00 Jerusalem, follows a series of earlier remarks by Katz this morning (Mon 08:54) in which he declared 'the destroyer was destroyed' and warned that any future Iranian leader pursuing a similar agenda would be eliminated.
The Zioneer's thread from 08:54 Jerusalem documented Katz's evolving statements: he first said Khamenei was eliminated for initiating a plan to destroy Israel, then condemned 'Death to Trump' chants at the funeral, and later explicitly said Israel eliminated Khamenei. The IRGC Intelligence Ministry, for its part, vowed revenge for the killing on July 4, calling it 'the greatest crime in modern history.'
As The Zioneer reported on July 4, the IRGC Intelligence Ministry issued a statement during Khamenei's funeral vowing to target both the US and Israel. Katz credited the joint US-Israeli operation with removing immediate existential threats.
The new confirmation is based on a single source and has not been independently corroborated. It remains unclear whether Katz's statement represents a formal shift in Israel's policy of ambiguity regarding targeted operations abroad.
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