1. The following are excerpts from the 6 July 2026 Al Jazeera news report by Fateme Karimkhan and Simon Speakman Cordall:
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.....Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since the Israeli air strike on February 28 that wounded him and killed his father, Ali Khamenei, as well as Mojtaba’s wife, Zahra Haddad-Adel, and other family members. He has remained absent throughout the funeral ceremonies for his wife and father....
On Monday, as Khamenei’s funeral procession made its way through Tehran, Israel’s defence minister appeared to threaten his successor. The minister, Israel Katz, said in a Hebrew-language statement that Khamenei “was assassinated by Israel because he set in motion and led the plan to destroy Israel”.
“The assassin was assassinated,” Katz said. “Any Iranian leader who tries to push plans to destroy Israel again will also be thwarted.”
Katz had last week threatened, more directly, that Khamenei was on Israel’s target list, prompting a stern rebuke from Iran.
Much of Iran’s leadership was systematically targeted for assassination by Israel since it first launched strikes upon Iran on February 28, initiating the US-Israel war on Iran...... (End excerpts)
Source Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026...-but-mojtabas-absence-fuels-public-insecurity
2. Poster's Comment:
Compared to the medieval Order of Assassins, which operated primarily in Persia and the Levant between the 11th and 13th centuries; Israel's national intelligence agency, Mossad, is certainly more terrifying and brutal. Research by Ronen Bergman, an Israeli investigative journalist, reveals Israel is estimated to have carried out more than 2,700 assassination operations since the state's founding in 1948. This includes the assassination of more than 500 Muslim and Arab nuclear scientists and elite scholars.
The absence of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, from his father's funeral ceremonies highlights the reality in the Middle East, that is, Israel has the ABILITY and LEGAL RIGHT (supported by Uncle Sam) to take the life of Muslim leader or politician in the region anytime. The Iranian leader is fully aware of the folly of appearing even once in public. He understands very well that his existence will end in no time if he appears in public to prove his existence. He apparently opts to remain as elusive and "invisible" as the Old Man of the Mountain in the medieval Order of Assassins, as long as Israel rejects the "two-states solution".
(a) It will be terrifying for all countries if Israel's evil pracices of eliminating its perceived enemies are accepted as a new normal in international relations. In such a new world order, any country has the legal right to carry out a killing operation against any leader or politician in another country openly or covertly. Just imagine if you are the leader of a country, you will be living in fear for your life day and night.
(b) Finally, what if Russia, inspired by Israel's successful assassination campaigns in the Middle East, begins to carry out similar targeted killings against European leaders, politicians and military officials in Europe?
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.....Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since the Israeli air strike on February 28 that wounded him and killed his father, Ali Khamenei, as well as Mojtaba’s wife, Zahra Haddad-Adel, and other family members. He has remained absent throughout the funeral ceremonies for his wife and father....
On Monday, as Khamenei’s funeral procession made its way through Tehran, Israel’s defence minister appeared to threaten his successor. The minister, Israel Katz, said in a Hebrew-language statement that Khamenei “was assassinated by Israel because he set in motion and led the plan to destroy Israel”.
“The assassin was assassinated,” Katz said. “Any Iranian leader who tries to push plans to destroy Israel again will also be thwarted.”
Katz had last week threatened, more directly, that Khamenei was on Israel’s target list, prompting a stern rebuke from Iran.
Much of Iran’s leadership was systematically targeted for assassination by Israel since it first launched strikes upon Iran on February 28, initiating the US-Israel war on Iran...... (End excerpts)
Source Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026...-but-mojtabas-absence-fuels-public-insecurity
2. Poster's Comment:
Compared to the medieval Order of Assassins, which operated primarily in Persia and the Levant between the 11th and 13th centuries; Israel's national intelligence agency, Mossad, is certainly more terrifying and brutal. Research by Ronen Bergman, an Israeli investigative journalist, reveals Israel is estimated to have carried out more than 2,700 assassination operations since the state's founding in 1948. This includes the assassination of more than 500 Muslim and Arab nuclear scientists and elite scholars.
The absence of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, from his father's funeral ceremonies highlights the reality in the Middle East, that is, Israel has the ABILITY and LEGAL RIGHT (supported by Uncle Sam) to take the life of Muslim leader or politician in the region anytime. The Iranian leader is fully aware of the folly of appearing even once in public. He understands very well that his existence will end in no time if he appears in public to prove his existence. He apparently opts to remain as elusive and "invisible" as the Old Man of the Mountain in the medieval Order of Assassins, as long as Israel rejects the "two-states solution".
(a) It will be terrifying for all countries if Israel's evil pracices of eliminating its perceived enemies are accepted as a new normal in international relations. In such a new world order, any country has the legal right to carry out a killing operation against any leader or politician in another country openly or covertly. Just imagine if you are the leader of a country, you will be living in fear for your life day and night.
(b) Finally, what if Russia, inspired by Israel's successful assassination campaigns in the Middle East, begins to carry out similar targeted killings against European leaders, politicians and military officials in Europe?
Additional Reference:
A history of violence: Israel’s targeted assassinations
Israel is estimated to have carried out more than 2,700 assassinations since the state’s founding in 1948.
Mossad - Wikipedia
Targeted killing by Israel - Wikipedia
List of Israeli assassinations - Wikipedia
Wadie Haddad - Wikipedia
Operation Damocles - Wikipedia
The Long Tradition of Killing Middle Eastern Nuclear Scientists
Wednesday's car bomb in Tehran follows decades of poisonings, mail bombs, and killer prostitutes
Western countries gave Mossad information used to track and killi Palestinian terrorists in 1970s
Declassified documents reveal secret support by intelligence agencies without oversight by elected politicians
