Netanyahu Said He And Trump Are Changing The Middle East And Made Veiled Threats To Kill Iran's Leader

Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to kill Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader, two weeks after the US and Israel launched a war on Iran and assassinated his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28.

The US and Israel said the war aimed to “obliterate” Iran’s nuclear ambitions and for regime change, while Iran retaliated by attacking Israel and neighboring countries with US bases and blocking the Strait of Hormuz,  where nearly 20% of the world’s oil is transported.

In his first statement after taking power on March 8, Mojtaba vowed that Iran will continue fighting the US and Israel and promised revenge for those killed in the war.

On March 12, Netanyahu held his first press conference since the war started, saying Israel and the US have made enormous achievements, “changing the balance of power in the Middle East and beyond.”

“We eliminated the tyrant Khamenei and many senior figures in the terrorist regime. We eliminated the old dictator – and the new dictator, Mojtaba, the puppet of the Revolutionary Guards, he cannot show his face in public,“ he said. “We are crushing the nuclear infrastructure, the missile and launcher array, the suppression headquarters, the regime’s power centers, and many other goals.”

Netanyahu said that Israel and the US are creating the optimal conditions to help the Iranian people topple the regime.

He said Iran was "no longer the same" after nearly two weeks of bombardment, adding that Israel had struck Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Corps and Basij — a paramilitary force used to suppress domestic dissent — and had killed at least one senior nuclear scientist.

Netanyahu also said he wouldn't “issue life insurance policies on any of the leaders of the terrorist organizations," when he was asked whether Israel might kill Mojtaba.

In response, the IRGC threatened to "pursue and kill" Netanyahu, saying, "if this child-killing criminal is alive, we will continue to pursue and kill him with full force."

Netanyahu later posted a video of him in a cafe in Jerusalem on his X account on Sunday, March 15, saying he is alive.

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