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Israel says Iran's Supreme Leader avoided assassination by going underground

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26-06-2025 | 14:31

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Israel says Iran's Supreme Leader avoided assassination by going underground

Israel would have killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were it possible during the countries' 12-day war, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday.

"I estimate that if Khamenei had been in our sights, we would have taken him out," Katz said in the interview with Israel's Kan public television.

"But Khamenei understood this, went underground to very great depths, and broke off contacts with the commanders who replaced those commanders who were eliminated, so it wasn’t realistic in the end," he said.

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