Mojtaba Khamenei is an ‘evil human being’ and Jews are in an ‘existential fight,’ Israeli Amb. Yechiel Leiter tells ALL ISRAEL NEWS

WASHINGTON, DC — Senior Israeli officials are highly encouraged by the tremendous progress they are making, and the extensive damage the IDF is doing to the Iranian regime and its offensive capabilities in this historic, if high-risk, joint operation with the United States.

But they are under no illusions.

They see the newly appointed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and his End Times theology as more fanatical and more dangerous than that of his father, the recently assassinated Grand Ayatollah.

Israeli officials know they have kicked the hornet’s nest and they believe they and the Americans must not slow down, not hesitate, but completely achieve their mission.

If not, they fear the Iranian regime will somehow survive, regroup, rearm, and come back for Apocalyptic vengeance. 

HOW DANGEROUS IS MOJTABA KHAMENEI?

I sat down with Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter, whom I have known for 23 years, to discuss a wide range of topics at the Israeli embassy in Washington.

I was conducting an interview for ALL ISRAEL NEWS and THE ROSENBERG REPORT, my weekly, prime-time, TV show on TBN, the most-watched Christian television network in the United States.

One of the questions I asked was about Mojtaba Khamenei.

“Some say he's more wicked and apocalyptic in his eschatology – his end times theology, and his hatred of Israel and the United States – than even his father,” I noted.

“What do you know? What does Israeli intelligence and the Prime Minister know about him?

“It's all the above,” Leiter told me. 

“He's an evil human being and he will not hesitate for a moment to advance his nuclear program.”

“He's an enemy of the West. He was involved in the decision to slaughter Iranians two months ago when they rose up.”

That I hadn’t heard from anyone else.

“He was very involved in the decision-making process of the IRGC to open fire,” the ambassador told me.

“Many people were shot in the back. Shot in the head. I mean, they were young people – were demonstrating in the streets for freedom.”

“We estimate that somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 people” were murdered by the regime, he said.

“So, he was very involved in that. He has blood on his hands. And, it's certainly no improvement over his father.

I noted that there are reports that Mojtaba is wounded, some that he is dead. 

“What do we know so far?” I asked. 

“Well, they apparently chose him yesterday,” Leiter said last Tuesday. “So, it's fair to assume he's not dead.”

“But, I'll tell you, if I was selling life insurance, I'm not sure I'd give him a policy,” he added, implying the U.S. and Israel are actively hunting down Mojtaba and seeking to assassinate him, too. 

HOW HIGH ARE THE STAKES?

“This is an existential issue for us,” the ambassador said.

“The world really has to thank President Trump for this,” he added.

“When he said this was imminent, that in a few months they would have nuclear weapons, he knew what he was talking about.”

After Operations Midnight Hammer and Rising Lion last June, Supreme Leader Khamenei and his inner circle did not surrender.

They did not rethink their approach.

They did not change courage or pursue moderation.

“Instead of listening to President Trump and saying, ‘We are not going to go back to enriching uranium,’ they not only went back to enriching uranium.”

“They went to producing a facility, building a facility, that would be so deep underground that the bunker busters couldn't get to it.”

IRAN HAS ENOUGH FUEL TO BUILD 11 NUCLEAR WARHEADS

“Now, when people ask this question about, ‘Were they really close to a nuclear weapon?’ Special Envoy Steve Witkoff gave the answer,” the ambassador noted. 

Iran was in possession of enough highly enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear bombs or warheads. 

“Both of the Iranian negotiators said to us directly – with, you know, no shame – that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%” enriched uranium,” Witkoff recently said on Fox News.

They also always “they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs,” Witkoff continued.

“And that was the beginning of their negotiating stance. So, they were they were proud of it. They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.”

Leiter told me that “people have to understand that the move from 60% to 90% is no time. It's a week or two.”

“It's not like going from 0% to 3% – that could take years. 

Was it known to Israeli intelligence, to American intelligence, that they had enough highly enriched 60% uranium to build 11 nuclear weapons? I asked.

“We weren't surprised,” Leiter said. “We were warning about 9 to 12 bombs for a while."

Were you surprised that the Iranian negotiators admitted it?

“Exactly,” Leiter said. “Exactly. They bragged. And not only bragged about it, they said, 'This is the starting point for negotiations.'”

“I mean, haven't you been listening to President Trump? For years – and particularly since he got reelected – he says, ‘You're not going to have a nuclear bomb.’ Yet they're coming in and saying this is the starting point for negotiations.”

“So, they made a mockery, really, of the President of the United States.”

WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT GOALS OF THIS AMERICAN AND ISRAELI OPERATION? 

“The first thing is we have to accomplish is to – this is really the goal of the war, okay? It's to collapse this regime,” Leiter said.

“People talk about regime change. [But] regime change has to come about by the people of Iran.”

“Regime collapse has to come through this joint operation, Israel and America.”

So, what is meant by “regime collapse”?

Leiter said that in addition to eliminating Iran’s leadership, Washington and Jerusalem are determined to make sure that “there is not an entity in Tehran which is producing ballistic missiles, which is enriching uranium to nuclear grade, and which is sponsoring terror proxies around the region and around the world.”

“So, that could be something along the lines of the existing regime, as long as they change their behavior – highly unlikely – or this regime collapses entirely.”

“Now, what has happened in the past?” he asked.

“Regimes have collapsed. Who could have imagined that the Soviet Union would collapse as it did? Or that in Romania, the people of Romania would suddenly, in one fell swoop, turn their guns around against Ceaușescu?”

“So, regimes do collapse.”

“And remember that in Iran, we're not talking about a country like Iraq or Afghanistan, okay?, which was very, very divided and didn't have a large segment of the population that was pro-West,” the ambassador added.

“In Iran, you have 80% of the population, which is very pro-West.”

“And 80% of the country opposes this regime,” he noted, “and 80% of 92 million people is a lot of people.”