Iran targets Khamenei’s successor to get rid of him by Israel

The leaders of the Iranian regime are High to replace eliminated Israeli officials threatened that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be removed after their succession if they continued his ideology.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said: “Every leader appointed by the Iranian terrorist regime to pursue and lead the plan to destroy Israel, threaten the United States, the free world and the countries of the region, and oppress the Iranian people – will be an unequivocal target for elimination.” Written on X Wednesday.

“It does not matter what his name is or where he is hiding,” Katz said of the Israeli operation “Lion’s Roar,” a military operation that operates alongside Operation “Lion’s Roar.” “It does not matter what his name is or where he is hiding. The prime minister and I have instructed the IDF to prepare and work with all means to carry out the mission as an integral part of the objectives.” US Operation Epic Fury.

Katz’s letter comes after reports emerged of this Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei He was aspired to succeed his father by a powerful group of senior Iranian mullahs.

Israeli media and Iranian opposition channels reported on Tuesday that Mojtaba had already been selected, although Iranian official media did not confirm anything.

Katz said: “We will continue to work with full force, with our American partners, to crush the regime’s capabilities and create conditions for the Iranian people to overthrow and replace it.”

Khamenei and nearly 40 senior Iranian officials, including the defense minister, intelligence chief, advisor to the Supreme Leader for security affairs and secretary of the Defense Council, were killed in the first hours of the joint US-Israeli operation on Saturday.

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IRGC officials had it all Convened for a high-level meeting Inside Khamenei’s fortified compound in Tehran when Israeli fighter jets swooped in on Saturday in a daylight attack, reducing the building to rubble.

After Khamenei’s death, Iran was governed by a three-person transitional council, two senior aides to the Supreme Leader and President Masoud Pezeshkian.

The council will govern the Middle Eastern country until the 88-member Assembly of Experts elects a new leader.

The younger Khamenei was initially thought to have been killed in the raid, but reports that his name was being passed around to succeed his father indicate that he is alive.

Mojtaba — the Ayatollah’s second-eldest son — is known for his strong commitment to his father’s ultra-conservative politics, and has close ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military body, which is notorious for its brutality, according to CNN.

He never held any official position under his father’s regime but was sanctioned by the United States in 2019.