{"id":324640,"date":"2026-03-13T08:15:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324640"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:11:43","slug":"netanyahu-threatens-irans-new-supreme-leader-defends-joint-assault-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324640","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu threatens Iran\u2019s new supreme leader, defends joint assault with US"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reuters \u2013 March 12, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday issued a veiled threat to kill Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader as he sought to use his first press conference since the start of the war to defend his joint military assault with the U.S. against Iran.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Netanyahu said that Iran was &#8220;no longer the same&#8221; after nearly two weeks of U.S.-Israeli air bombardment and that Tehran had suffered blows to its elite Revolutionary Guards Corps and Basij paramilitary force.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Standing between two Israeli flags and taking questions via video link, Netanyahu vowed to keep hitting Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah after the Iran-backed group opened fire on March 2 to avenge the killing of Iran&#8217;s supreme leader at the start of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about what actions Israel might take against Iran&#8217;s new Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem, Netanyahu said:<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">&#8220;I wouldn\u2019t issue life insurance policies on any of the leaders of the terrorist organization &#8230; I don&#8217;t intend to give an exact message here about what we are planning or what we are going to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Israeli leader said that Iran and Hezbollah no longer pose the same threats that they once did.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu said he and U.S. President Donald Trump speak daily and that their conversations are free and open in nature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/middle-east\/netanyahu-threatens-irans-new-supreme-leader-defends-joint-assault-with-us\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having made no public appearances for days, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has emerged (probably from a fortified bunker) to issue veiled threats against Iran\u2019s new Supreme Leader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":320025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324641,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324640\/revisions\/324641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/320025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}