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“I just want to go back and just continue the work that I was already doing, advocating for Palestinian rights – speech that should actually be celebrated rather than punished, as this administration wants to do,” Khalil said Saturday at a press conference at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Khalil, 30, was arrested by federal immigration authorities on March 8 and spent 104 days at the rural detention center as the Trump administration fought to deport the Syrian-born permanent resident.
He also vowed to keep fighting for the rights of the “incredible men” he left behind in the Louisiana immigration facility.
Khalil was joined at Newark by his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, 28, their son, who was born during his detainment, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
“Because Mahmoud Khalil is an advocate for Palestinian human rights, he has been accused, baselessly, of horrific allegations, simply because the Trump administration and our overall establishment disagrees with his political speech,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters.
“We will continue to resist the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in,” she added.
Khalil was released on bail Friday after New Jersey US District Judge Michael Farbiarz ruled Friday that the government had “clearly not met” the standards for detention.
Farbiarz said it was “highly, highly unusual” for the government to continue detaining a legal resident who was unlikely to flee and hadn’t been accused of violence.
Khalil was released on conditions including the surrender of his passport and travel restrictions limiting him to New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Washington, DC, and Louisiana, where his immigration proceedings will continue, according to reports.
Khalil’s lawyers on Saturday called the decision a “significant and important victory.”
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has chosen a secret list of three potential successors if he succumbs to the same fate as his growing list of valued lieutenants — another handful of whom were killed in overnight Israeli strikes Saturday.
Khamenei, 86, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader since 1989, believes that either Israel or the US will try to kill him and crafted the list while holed up in a bunker, ordering his nation’s Assembly of Experts — the clerical body responsible for appointing the supreme leader — to choose from his handpicked pool should his enemies be successful, officials told The New York Times.
B-2 Bombers, capable of carrying bombs that are believed to be able to destroy the fortified nuclear facility in Fordow, took off Saturday morning from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.
According to a report from Fox News, six of these aircraft took off from the base in Missouri. Two American sources confirmed to Reuters that the US military is moving bombers of this type towards the Pacific Ocean’s Guam Islands, where a strategic military base is located.
The planes are heading west, accompanied by four refueling aircraft. It is unclear if they are expected to continue on to Diego Garcia, located about 3,500 km from Iran.
The IDF continued on Saturday to strike and eliminate senior figures in Iran. Among those killed was Hussein Khalil, who was considered the personal bodyguard of Hezbollah's Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah.
Khalil underwent specialized training in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the 1990s and even commanded Hezbollah fighters in the city of Aleppo alongside the Assad regime.
Another individual eliminated in an airstrike on a building in central Tehran was Seyed Asgar Hashmabitar, a senior nuclear and missile scientist, who was considered one of the central figures in Iran's military nuclear project.
Hashmabitar was one of Iran's leading experts in pulse technologies. In the 1990s, he wrote a thesis in Tehran about digital control for ballistic missiles.
In a separate attack, nuclear scientist Issar Tabatabai-Kamesheh was killed, along with his wife. This marks at least the 11th scientist involved in the nuclear project to be killed since the war began.
The IDF Air Force also eliminated Behnam Shahriari, the commander of Unit 190 of the Quds Force, responsible for smuggling weapons, equipment, and funds to terrorist organizations in the Middle East. This elimination took place while he was traveling near the Iraq border.
On Friday night, Saeed Izadi, the commander of the "Palestine Brigade" in the Quds Force, was also killed in Qom. He was responsible for coordinating with Hamas and Hezbollah and was considered Iran's primary liaison to the resistance axis.
In addition to these eliminations, the IDF Air Force attacked approximately 150 military targets across Iran using around 50 fighter jets. Two main bombing runs took place overnight in central Iran: the first, at midnight, targeted about 25 sites, during which 130 munitions were dropped; the second, in the morning and afternoon, targeted an additional 20 sites, including radar systems, naval bases, and command centers in the Ahvaz area, using around 50 munitions.
Alongside the airstrikes, the IDF's UAVs destroyed dozens of missile launchers of various types overnight. According to the IDF, some of these launchers were found abandoned on the side of the road after Iranian soldiers fled the scene.
