Israeli defence minister compares Iranian leadership to “rats”

Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, has compared the Iranian leadership to “rats fleeing into tunnels” and called them “twins of Hamas,” Clash Report notes.

“Iranian leadership flee like rats into tunnels, just like the Hamas leadership in Gaza. Today, they are essentially twins of Hamas. From those tunnels, they issue orders to fire on civilians and civilian targets in Israel and across the entire region. This is what they have become—the twin leadership of Hamas,” Katz said.

He added: “Thousands have been killed. They are hiding this by shutting down the internet, but I understand that hospital morgues are full. We are targeting terrorist forces here, not civilians. This must continue.”

Katz stressed that Israel will continue operations against the regime and its strategic targets across Tehran and Iran, “day after day, target after target,” while also aiming to “empower the Iranian people to rise up and overthrow this regime. Ultimately, that is up to them.”

By Khagan Isayev