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Israeli minister changes tone on targeting Tehran residents
Defence Minister Israel Katz says Israel has no intention of deliberately harming people in Tehran, walking back threatening comments he made earlier.
“I wish to clarify the obvious: there is no intention to physically harm the residents of Tehran as the murderous dictator does to the residents of Israel,” Katz said in a statement on X.
“The residents of Tehran will have to pay the price of dictatorship and evacuate their homes from areas where it will be necessary to attack regime targets and security infrastructures in Tehran.”
Katz warned earlier that people in Iran’s capital will “pay the price – and soon” for deadly Iranian retaliatory strikes on Israel.
‘We cannot accept the situation in Iran’
Yossi Beilin, Israel’s minister of justice between 1999 and 2001, says Netanyahu made “a huge mistake” by inviting far-right “lunatics” into his government.
“They should’ve never been part of the government. They represent a small proportion of the Israeli public opinion. It’s very problematic,” Beilin told Al Jazeera.
“Netanyahu has made huge mistakes in the last years, and one of them was convincing Trump to withdraw from the [nuclear] agreement with Iran.”
He added, however, “the Iranian threat is a real threat”.
“In the past, we were friendly countries. Since 1979, we became the devil for whatever reason – because they hate the Jews and they want us to disappear. They don’t want to negotiate with us. This is the view of the enemy that you cannot tolerate. We cannot accept the situation in Iran,” Beilin said.
Maybe you should look into the 'whatever reason' instead of manifesting your fears by bombing Iran. But that would require to face your ongoing occupation, oppression and destruction of the Palestinians.
Netanyahu says Israel ‘on the path to victory’
The Israeli prime minister says his country’s air force is “in control of the skies over Tehran”.
Netanyahu made the remarks as he visited the Tel Nof airbase in central Israel with Defence Minister Israel Katz and Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Eyal Zamir, according to the Israeli media.
“We are on our way to achieving our two objectives: eliminating the nuclear threat and eliminating the missile threat,” he said.
He also threatened the citizens of Tehran, telling them to leave the capital. “We are taking action,” said Netanyahu.
