Defence Minister Israel Katz warns of a devastating offensive targeting Iran's new supreme leadership, as tensions between Jerusalem and Tehran remain on a knife's edge.
Israel Katz © Mena Today
Israel has declared it is ready to resume military operations against Iran, pending authorisation from Washington.
In a video statement released Thursday, Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israeli forces are prepared "both defensively and offensively" and that targets inside Iran have already been designated.
"We are waiting for the green light from the United States, first and foremost to complete the elimination of the Khamenei dynasty," Katz said, in a direct reference to Mojtaba Khamenei, who was named Supreme Leader following the death of his father Ali Khamenei on 28 March.
The minister went further, declaring Israel's intent to "bring Iran back to the dark ages and the Stone Age."
The statement represents one of the most explicit public threats issued by an Israeli official toward Tehran in recent weeks.
An Iranian parliamentary committee is reviewing a preliminary bill that would bar U.S., Israeli and other "hostile" vessels from transiting the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported, citing a lawmaker.
With President Donald Trump’s war against Iran now in its sixth month, this week's flurry of threats and diplomacy has underscored the ever-tighter bind he finds himself in as he tries to extricate the U.S. from an unpopular conflict he originally claimed would last just weeks.
At least 30 Yemeni government troops were killed in Houthi attacks on military camps in the provinces of Marib and Hadramout, government sources said on Thursday.
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