The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed there are signs that Ayatollah Ali Khameini is dead.
Speaking in a televised address on Saturday evening, Netanyahu said Israel’s military campaign in Iran will continue “as long as it is needed” and insisted the conflict will bring about “true peace.”
According to him, everyone knows that “such a murderous regime” should not possess nuclear weapons capable of “continue threatening the entire humankind.”
“We would like to thank the brave Iranian people, that they are being freed of those horrific ties with that regime,” he added.
He claimed, “Signs show that Khameini is no longer with us,” noting that airstrikes destroyed the supreme leader’s compound.
“All indications show this tyrant is no longer with us,” Netanyahu reiterated, contradicting statements from the Iranian foreign ministry earlier asserting that the supreme leader and Iran’s president were “safe and sound.”
Addressing Iranians, whom he described as “courageous,” he said the strikes will help them “unshackle themselves from tyranny” and described the moment as a “once in a generation chance” to overthrow the regime.
He encouraged citizens to “take to the streets en masse” and “get the job done,” emphasizing that “it is high time you came together” to “unite for a historic mission.”
“This is an opportunity to do something. Do not sit with your arms crossed, because this moment will come and you will be demanded to go out of the streets in the masses, because you have to complete this work, and you have to bring down and eradicate this regime,” he said.
Netanyahu added that Israeli forces successfully targeted senior members of Iran’s nuclear program along with high-ranking officials.