Mossad Director Dadi Barnea said on Tuesday that Israeli operations against Iran will only end “once the extremist regime in Iran is replaced.”
Barnea made the comment during a Holocaust memorial event, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“We planned it so carefully that our operations would continue and manifest even in the period after the strikes in Tehran,” Barnea reportedly said. “Our promise will only be fulfilled once the extremist regime in Iran is replaced.”
“Forty days of intense fighting have led to very significant achievements, the most important of which is a blow to the enemy’s central goal – the destruction of the State of Israel,” Barnea added. to Ynetnieuws. “However, our mission is not yet complete.”
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File photo shows Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attending a demonstration marking Jerusalem Day in Tehran. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)
Israel began its Operation Roaring Lion against Iran on February 28, the same day the US military launched Operation Epic Fury.
The joint effort between the US and Israel decimated Iran’s military and missile infrastructure and resulted in the death of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei.
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Iran’s Assembly of Experts appointed Mojtaba Khamenei (R) as the country’s new supreme leader, succeeding his father, Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, the capital of Iran, on March 4, 2026. (Press Office of the Iranian President/Anadolu)
Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is seriously disfigured after suffering injuries to his legs and face during the first airstrikes on Tehran in February, Reuters reported earlier this week.
Former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arrives to cast his vote in the 2024 presidential election. (Sobhan Farajvan/Pacific Press/LightRocket) (Sobhan Farajvan/Pacific Press)
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Khamenei is recovering from injuries sustained in the February 28 airstrikes that killed his father.
