Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is “not off limits” from targeting in Israeli airstrikes, The Wall Street Journal reported citing an Israeli official.
Israel wasn’t ruling out any potential targets to destroy the nuclear program, including Khamenei, the official was quoted as saying.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett issued a message to the Iranian people on Saturday, calling on them to seize the moment and rise against the Islamic Republic.
“Your time is now. Free yourselves from your cruel dictators,” he wrote on X.
Bennett said Israel had eliminated Iran’s most senior military leaders and added, “The regime has never been weaker. Never!”
Quoting a Jewish maxim - “If not now, when?” - he urged Iranians to “take their future into their own hands.”
“The people of Israel stand with you,” he said, pledging support from Israel and “the entire free world.”
Bennett warned that failing to act now would mean “decades more tyranny and terror.”
"Tehran is burning," Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a post on X, after Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran's oil depots and multiple other locations including the headquarters of the defense ministry.
The Israeli military says it has targeted Iran's Defense Ministry headquarters.
No damage was observed at Iran’s Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant or the Khondab heavy water reactor, which is still under construction, the UN nuclear watchdog said Saturday.
No further damage has been seen at Natanz since Israeli strikes there on Friday, it added.
Earlier, the agency confirmed that four critical buildings at the Isfahan nuclear site were hit, including a uranium conversion facility and a fuel plate fabrication plant, but reported no change in off-site radiation levels.
“As in Natanz, no increase in off-site radiation expected,” the IAEA said on X.





