Iranian officials threatened to “pursue and kill” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel unleashed a round of extensive missiles towards western Iran Sunday morning.
“If this child-killing criminal is alive, we will continue to pursue and kill him with full force,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps wrote online about Netanyahu, according to the Associated Press, citing the state-run IRNA news agency.
The threatening pledge was made days after the 76-year-old Israeli leader declared that the US and Israel were destroying Iran and reshaping the Middle East.
“We are in historic days, days that will be recorded in the annals of Israel. In ‘Operation Roaring Lion,’ our roar is growing stronger,” Netanyahu said in an address to the nation on Thursday. “We are crushing the terrorist regime in Iran. We are striking and crushing its proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.”
The Iranian war entered its third week on Saturday, which began when the US and Israel launched a joint military operation that targeted military infrastructure across Iran and eliminated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and 40 top officials in an airstrike on a fortified compound in Tehran.
Netanyahu has staved off continuous threats from Iran’s military, including missile and drone strikes launched at Israel.
“Threats come and go—but when we become a regional power, and in certain fields a global power, we have the strength to push dangers away from us and secure our future,” he said.
“In 1993, I published a newspaper article and I wrote: ‘The greatest danger to Israel’s existence is not found in the Arab states; it is found in Iran.’ Since then, for over 30 years, the murderous regime of the ayatollahs has indeed acted to harm the US and the West, but first and foremost, it acted to advance its plan for the destruction of Israel.”
On Sunday, the IDF launched “a wave of extensive strikes targeting infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime in western Iran.
President Trump on Saturday said Iran is begging to end the war, but he is not willing to talk to them until the Iranian regime is serious about the proposed terms.
“Iran wants to make a deal, and I don’t want to make it because the terms aren’t good enough yet,” Trump told NBC News.
The agreement between the US would require Iran to completely abandon any nuclear ambitions.
Trump reiterated that the conditions of the terms have to be “very solid” in order for him to agree to them, ending the military campaign.
