
JET SET NO MORE: Israeli Strike Destroys Khamenei’s Private Plane in Tehran
The IDF announced Monday that it had destroyed the private jet used by former Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and other high-ranking Iranian officials in an overnight strike on Mehrabad Airport in Tehran.
The IDF said that the strike disrupted the regime’s ability to coordinate with allies, to build up its military and to recover from the damage caused by previous strikes.
The IDF explained in a statement, “The aircraft was used by Ali Khamenei, the [former] supreme leader of the Iranian terror regime, additional senior officials, and Iranian military personnel to advance military procurement and to manage coordination with axis countries through both domestic and international flights.”
“As a result, another strategic asset of the regime has been degraded,” the statement added.
The IDF also posted Monday that it had struck an Iranian regime intelligence command center in Tehran, located near Iran’s national electricity company.
“The Ministry of Intelligence is the regime’s primary intelligence body, responsible for monitoring Iranian civilians and enabling the violent suppression of civil protests over many years,” the IDF said in a statement posted to social media.
Separately, the IDF has initiated limited, targeted ground operations against key Hezbollah military installations as part of “broader defensive efforts to establish and strengthen a forward defensive posture, which includes the dismantling of terrorist infrastructure and the elimination of terrorists operating in the area, to create an additional layer of security for residents of northern Israel.”