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Eugene

(66,434 posts) Fri Jun 27, 2025, 03:27 PM Jun 2025

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Israel says Iran's Supreme Leader avoided assassination by going underground

Source: Reuters

Israel says Iran's Supreme Leader avoided assassination by going underground

Reuters
Thu, June 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM EDT 1 min read

(Reuters) -Israel would have killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were it possible during the countries' 12-day war, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday.

"I estimate that if Khamenei had been in our sights, we would have taken him out," Katz said in the interview with Israel's Kan public television.

"But Khamenei understood this, went underground to very great depths, and broke off contacts with the commanders who replaced those commanders who were eliminated, so it wasn’t realistic in the end," he said.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-says-irans-supreme-leader-163942152.html

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Israel says Iran's Supreme Leader avoided assassination by going underground (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2025 OP

Well, wouldn't YOU??? no_hypocrisy Jun 2025 #1

all that would have happened sabbat hunter Jun 2025 #2

no_hypocrisy

(53,219 posts)

1. Well, wouldn't YOU???

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Fri Jun 27, 2025, 07:12 PM

Jun 2025

sabbat hunter

(7,039 posts)

2. all that would have happened

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Mon Jun 30, 2025, 11:33 PM

Jun 2025

is that another Mullah would have taken over, the IRGC would have propped up his replacement. Nothing really would have changed.

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