‘A modern Hitler’ – Israeli leaders directly threaten Iran’s Khamenei and his regime after Beersheva hospital strike

Following Thursday morning’s missile barrage that struck several civilian targets, including the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva, Israeli leaders sharply escalated their rhetoric, publicly stating for the first time that ending the ayatollah regime in Tehran is among Israel’s war objectives.

“Iran’s terrorist tyrants launched missiles at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba and at a civilian population in the center of the country,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

“We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran,” he added.

Defense Minister Israel Katz was even harsher in his statements, saying he and Netanyahu have “instructed the IDF to intensify strikes against strategic targets in Iran and government-related targets in Tehran, in order to eliminate threats to the State of Israel and destabilize the ayatollah regime.”

Hours later, Katz visited one of the impact sites and vowed Israel would continue the military operation “until the end.”

“A dictator like Khamenei, who heads a country like Iran and has made the destruction of the State of Israel his declared goal, this horrific goal of destroying Israel, cannot be allowed to continue or materialize,” he told reporters.

“I compare it to the scenario in which, during the horrific Holocaust, if the State of Israel had existed and a strong IDF 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.”

“And just like that, correspondingly, I see the current situation – Khamenei is the modern Hitler,” Katz said.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar wrote in a cryptic post on 𝕏: “The Iranian regime fired a ballistic missile at a hospital. The Iranian regime deliberately targets civilians. The Iranian regime is committing war crimes. The Iranian regime has no red lines. Noted.”

Earlier this week, Axios reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had vetoed an assassination attempt on Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, when an opportunity presented itself last weekend.

Several media outlets reported that Israel had considered such a move. However, Netanyahu and National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi flatly denied these reports.

While Iran’s largest and most dangerous proxy – Hezbollah – has stayed on the sidelines of the conflict so far, it responded to the latest threats against Khamenei, whom the terror group sees as its supreme spiritual leader.

Hezbollah said the death threats were “stupid and reckless, with disastrous consequences.”

Established in the 1980s under the direction of the Iranian regime, Hezbollah was intended to serve as a “doomsday weapon” positioned to attack Israel in the event of a strike on Iran’s nuclear program.

When Israel began striking the regime, Hezbollah declared its support for Iran but said it wouldn’t launch attacks on Israel.

Now, Hezbollah has condemned Israel’s threats “in the strongest terms,” declaring that they were “an offense to hundreds of millions of believers, and people connected to Islam and resistance.”

In addition, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, also condemned Israel’s threats against Khamenei, who is the highest Shiite authority.

Any targeting of Iran’s leader could create “widespread chaos that would exacerbate the suffering of its people and severely harm everyone’s interests,” Sistani said.