New Delhi: Donald Trump is seriously weighing options about joining Israel in their ongoing military strikes on Iran, even though the US President is not in favour of killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
However, Israel may soon be targeting Iran’s Supreme Leader after Tehran launched fresh strikes and hit one of the biggest hospitals, as the conflict in Middle East entered the seventh day.
Calling Khamenei a dictator, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz described the former as a “modern day Hitler” and threatened that he cannot ‘continue to exist’.
“A dictator like Khamenei, who heads a country like Iran and has made the destruction of Israel his mission, cannot continue to exist,” Katz said.
“The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) has been instructed and knows that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man absolutely should not continue to exist,” Katz added.
“I compare it to the scenario in which, during the horrific Holocaust, if the State of Israel had existed and a strong Israel Defense Forces had existed, and we knew we could send the IDF into a bunker to capture the enemy of the Jewish people, Hitler, in order to thwart his plan to annihilate the Jews, we would have done it,” Katz stated during Thursday’s visit to Holon, where an Iranian missile made impact.
“We would have sent the IDF, extracted him, and eliminated him. And just like that, correspondingly, I see the current situation — Khamenei is the modern Hitler.”
Iran hits hospital, Israel targets nuclear reactor
After Iran unleashed a barrage of missiles, causing extensive damage to southern Israel’s largest hospital Soroka Medical Center and injuring at least 47 people, Israel struck Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, a key nuclear site.
