‘You have 12 hours to escape’: Israel launched covert campaign to intimidate Iranian officials

 

In the hours after Israel launched its first wave of strikes against Iran on June 13, killing top military leaders and nuclear scientists, Israeli intelligence operatives launched a covert campaign to intimidate senior officials with the apparent aim of dividing and destabilizing Tehran’s theocratic regime, according to three people familiar with the operation.*

People working for Israel’s security services who speak Persian, Iran’s primary language, called senior Iranian officials on their cellphones and warned them that they, too, would die unless they ceased supporting the regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, according to the three people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss clandestine operations. One of them estimated that more than 20 Iranians in positions of power were contacted.

The Washington Post obtained an audio recording and transcript of one such call, which took place the same day, June 13, that Israel began its bombardment of Iran.

“I can advise you now, you have 12 hours to escape with your wife and child. Otherwise, you’re on our list right now,” an Israeli intelligence operative told a senior Iranian general close to the country’s rulers, according to the audio recording. The operative then suggested that Israel could train weapons on the general and his family at any moment. “We’re closer to you than your own neck vein. Put this in your head. May God protect you,” he said.

The general, a member of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was told he had 12 hours to make a video disassociating himself from the Iranian government.

 Recording of Israeli Intelligence Officer Speaking with Iranian General

Largest camera ever built captures eye-popping images of millions of distant stars and galaxies

 The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands of never-before-seen asteroids.

The observatory — perched atop Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes Mountains — will train its high-powered 27.5-foot Simonyi Survey Telescope at the night sky over the next decade to give astronomers an unprecedented look at the cosmos.

The newly released images were compiled from around 10 hours of test observations, showing swirling clouds of pink and golden dust that make up the Trifid nebula and a large cluster of galaxies known as the Virgo cluster — both located thousands of light-years away.

In all, the video made from the first 1,100 test images shows around 10 million distant galaxies in the camera’s wide-view lens, a tiny fraction of the approximately 20 billion galaxies the Rubin observatory is hoping to capture over the course of its work.

“NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory will capture more information about our universe than all optical telescopes throughout history combined,” National Science Foundation Chief of Staff Brian Stone told CNN.

The test images also uncovered 2,104 asteroids that had never before been seen in our solar system, including seven “near-Earth” asteroids — those within about 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit.

Scientists at the observatory said none of them pose any threat to our planet.

Images of the asteroids are expected to be shared with the public on Monday.

Typical telescopes based in space or on the ground are capable of spying around 20,000 asteroids each year, while the Rubin Observatory is expected to discover millions of the rocky space objects in just the next two years alone, according to the US National Science Foundation, which funded the observatory along with the US Department of Energy.

The primary objective of the $810 million observatory, which took approximately 20 years to build, is to create an ultra-high-definition movie of the images it captures over the next 10 years known as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

The resulting time-lapse compilation will show details like comets and asteroids zooming by, exploding stars and distant galaxies transforming over time.

“[Rubin] will enable us to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, and all in a truly new way. Since we take images of the night sky so quickly and so often, (it) will detect millions of changing objects literally every night,” Aaron Roodman, a professor of particle physics and astrophysics at Stanford University, told the outlet.

The observatory’s unique capabilities will help other powerful telescopes direct their focus, acting as a “discovery machine” to discover other interesting areas of the universe that warrant a closer look.

The telescope’s namesake, Vera C. Rubin, is considered one of the most influential female astronomers of all time.

She is credited with providing some of the first evidence proving the existence of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up much of our universe.

🚨🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES CEASEFIRE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND IRAN 🚨🚨

 

President Donald Trump has announced a pending ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran, officially bringing an end to what he called “The 12 Day War.” The agreement, brokered after days of intense diplomatic and military maneuvering, marks the conclusion of nearly two weeks of devastating conflict across the Middle East.

According to the statement, Iran will begin the ceasefire in approximately six hours, followed by Israel after 12 hours. After a full 24-hour truce, Trump said, the war will be considered officially over and “saluted by the world.”

The ceasefire follows a relentless Israeli military campaign that saw the IDF carry out thousands of precision strikes across Iran, targeting Revolutionary Guard facilities, missile factories, and infrastructure. Among the most significant blows were the assassinations of some two dozen top Iranian military commanders, and numerous leading nuclear scientists.

The campaign culminated in a joint U.S.-Israeli operation involving America’s B-2 stealth bombers, which dropped bunker-busting munitions on Iran’s most heavily fortified nuclear facilities — including Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Defense analysts believe the strikes may have obliterated Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and set back its nuclear ambitions by several years, if not more.

In his announcement, President Trump congratulated both nations for what he described as their “stamina, courage, and intelligence” in reaching the agreement. He emphasized that the ceasefire would require both sides to remain “peaceful and respectful” and hailed the outcome as a historic breakthrough that prevented a much wider and potentially longer war.

“This is a war that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East — but it didn’t, and never will,” Trump wrote. He closed the statement with a series of blessings: “God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and God bless the world.”

Moments after President Trump’s announcement, Vice President J.D. Vance discussed the ceasefire on Fox News: “The President without … having a single American casualty obliterated the Iranian nuclear program. We are now in a place where we weren’t a week ago.”

HaRav Zilberstein: “We’re Seeing The Revelation Of Hakadosh Baruch Hu” NO Credit to the IDF!

 

Perhaps the esteemed Rav should take into account that the Shluchim of HKB”H that destroyed Iran’s leadership were from the IDF – the very institution that Chareidi leaders waste no opportunity to denigrate. What about Megalgilin Zechus al yedei Zakai 

I find it ironic that the Charedie R"Y are all yelling that the IDF claims "Koichi Ve'etzem Yadi" but they themselves will never give credit to the shluchim of the RBS"O! 

What happened to "Hakoras Ha'toiv?" 

Moshe Rabbeinu was named "Moshe" to give thanks to Batye who rescued him

 וַתִּקְרָ֤א שְׁמוֹ֙ מֹשֶׁ֔ה וַתֹּ֕אמֶר כִּ֥י מִן־הַמַּ֖יִם מְשִׁיתִֽהוּ

"She called him "Moshe" because I drew him from the water"

His parents gave him other names, but this is the only name referring to Moshe  being used

?Why 

To give her Hakoras Hatoiv, though it was the RBS"O that ultimately saved her

Here we do have a R"Y that acknowledges that all these are miracles but will not G-D forbid give credit to his Jewish brothers in uniform

 

HaRav Arie Kovalevcki, the Rosh Yeshivah of Hadras Melech, a yeshivah in Bnei Brak for bochurim from Spanish-speaking countries, went this week to the kollel of HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein together with his talmidim.

The kollel, normally in Holon, is being temporarily housed in the Ramat Elchanan neighborhood of Bnei Brak.

After Mincha, the Rosh Yeshivah and his talmidim gathered around HaRav Zilberstein, who was wrapped in a tallis and tefillin, since his minhag since the war began is to learn all day with tefillin on his head, and for Mincha, he donned a tallis.

The Rosh Yeshivah told HaRav Zilberstein that the parents of the bochurim are nervous because of the war, and some of them want their sons to return home as soon as possible. The talmidim wanted to know what HaRav Zilberstein says about the matter.

HaRav Zilberstein responded in a lengthy and emotional message, speaking directly to “the parents of the bochurim in Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, and Panama. One of the ikarei emunah is believing in bias Moshiach. If we await him every day, then don’t bring your sons home, especially during these days when we see the revelation of Hakadosh Baruch Hu in all His glory. We are seeing awesome things now. Who dreamed of this? Who thought that the Jews would so successfully instill fear in Iran?”

“They killed every official and important figure there; they killed them all in one fell swoop. We see that Hashem—Hu Elokim. Now is the greatest time for the Jewish nation. Everyone needs to declare, ‘I believe in bias haMoshiach, and even though he may tarry, I’ll await him every day.’

“So, if that’s the case, I think that leaving your sons here now in Eretz Yisrael is a Kiddush Hashem, and it will help every father and mother who is worried, and they really do worry—and yet they leave their children here; they believe in bias haMoshiach.”

“Believe me, the children need to stay here now! This is the greatest time there is. This is truly an awesome time, a time when we see the revelation of Elokim!”

Therefore, I advise all the dear and esteemed parents to leave their sons here. Do not be afraid, they will not be harmed! They will only grow and grow and grow! And you will have nachas. Ashreichem and happy is your lot, ashreichim if you listen to me, and don’t bring them home. They should stay here, and you’ll daven for them, and in this zechus, you will have a long life.”

From a Real Gadol " Should Hallel be Said Over The Destruction Of The Iranian Nuclear Program

DIN: A breath of fresh air, finally! A R"Y who has no political motives! 

 Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon is a Rosh Yeshiva at the Lev Academic Center’s Beis Midrash program, rabbi of the Gush Etzion region, head of the World Mizrachi and founder of the Sulamot program for interactive teaching of Judaism. He was asked whether we should say Hallel over the destruction of the Iranian nuclear program. 

For decades, we have known that the greatest threat to the Jewish people is Iran—a country more than 2,000 kilometers away from Israel, with no territorial dispute with us, but which seeks to destroy the State of Israel solely because we are Jews. This threat recalls the words of Haman in ancient Persia some 2,500 years ago: “to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews.”

Operation “Am KeLavi” is a tremendous miracle. A miracle in the very boldness of the State of Israel to act in the heart of Iran; a miracle in the success of the Air Force, in its operational precision, and in the wisdom of the Mossad over the years. And above all—a miracle in the bombing of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure by the United States—an act that will be remembered for generations as a great deliverance for Israel and for the entire world. All of these are accompanied by great miracles and Divine assistance.

Trump to the Russians ... "DID I JUST HEAR THAT YOU WILL SUPPLYING NUCLEAR WARHEADS TO IRAN?"

 

Ami Magazine Continues to Slander the Jewish People in Israel

Yitzi Frankfurter Editor of Ami

This week, frum people around the world read Parshas Shlach, the tragic story of the Meraglim, the spies! 

Who were the spies? The Torah goes out of its way to describe them!

 , כֻּלָּ֣ם אֲנָשִׁ֔ים רָאשֵׁ֥י בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הֵֽמָּה׃ 

Lest you think that they were a bunch of bums, the Torah says quite the opposite, they were, in fact the Gedoilei Yisrael, hand-chosen by none other than the Ribbono Shel Olam Himself! They were what you would call today, the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah! 

We have spoken about this many times, and if you wish you can look at the sidebar and see what happened in all its glory! 

In this week's Ami Magazine, Yitzy Frankfurter decided that it would be a great idea to post "Divrei Chizzuk" from Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Rashbi and a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, and the son-in-law of Rav Shach z"l! 

After all, the State of Israel, the only Jewish State in the entire world, and the home of the majority of the Jewish people, is fighting for its very survival, and what better article than Chizzuk from an Odom Gadol! 

Setting aside shallow water, the article immediately dives into deep water; the "Divrei Chizzuk" begins with a vicious attack on those in the Israeli Government, the very government that is in charge of this war! 

 

"The way that those in government speak, always praising themselves- aside from the fact that it reflects the attitude of "koch v'otzem yadi" it tramples on the hashgacha of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. It becomes nauseating how they constantly glorify themselves."

Ironically, it is the Satmar/Yeshivishe derech to say that it is in fact the IDF that get all the credit, and it is all "Bederech Ha'Tevah" and there are no miracles for the Zionists! They are winning, according to the Roshei Yeshiva, precisely because they have a "great army!' But should the IDF say exactly what they are saying then its "koch v'otzem yadi?" 

I sit in kollel with avreicim and I hear this all the time, and when I do I can't help but burst out laughing, when they ask "what's so funny' I say "just replay what you just said! 

Now I am going to give the Rosh Yeshiva the benefit of the doubt, and assume that he doesn't get the news himself but is updated by ASS'kanim, since he says in this very article:

"Its the yetzer hara's advice to seek out the news. It's a real taavah. There is no benefit - only harm."

So, according to his own words, he doesn't read the news! 

If he did he would have noticed that the Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu mentions the name of the Ribono Shel Olam in every single speech! Even the IDF Spokesman says "Be'ezrat Hashem" in every one of his statements, even though he is not wearing a kippa! The world press saw just yesterday, Netanyahu in a Talis at the Kotel, thanking Hashem! 

Now, those reading this outrageous lie have seen with their very own eyes that this statement is completely false and is pure unadulterated Loshon Hara, on the very week that we read about the Meraglim! 

My question is, that Yitzy Frankfurter does read the news and he must have seen and read what we all saw on CNN, ABC, WNBC, Fox News, official statements from officials from the Israeli Government all saying "With the Help of G-d." 

Yet, Yitzy chose not to censure this blasphemous attack on other Jews, because of his sick, perverted antizionist Agenda!  

Truth be told that  those who know Yitzy, have never accused him of being the sharpest blade in the drawer, but what they didn't know is how cruel he can be! 

IDF Strikes Six Airports in Iran: UAVs Destroy 15 Iranian Regime Fighter Jets and Helicopters

 

As part of efforts to deepen Israeli air superiority over Iran, the IDF struck six regime airports across western, eastern, and central Iran.

The strikes targeted runways, underground hangars, a refueling aircraft, and F-14, F-5, and AH-1 aircraft belonging to the Iranian regime.

The aircraft destroyed were intended for use against Israeli Air Force jets and to disrupt their operations in Iranian airspace.

The Israeli Air Force has now disrupted the takeoff capabilities of these airports and degraded Iran’s ability to operate its air force from them.

You Can Run But You Cannot Hide!

 

🚨 JUST IN: WSJ: Israel eliminated an Iranian nuclear scientist who specialized in weapons in Tehran. According to the report, the apartment where he was killed was a safe house to which he had been transferred to protect him.

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) June 20, 2025

Hilarious!! He Meant recognize the "State of Palestine." But that’s not what came out. And not once!

 Then Balak said to Balaam,

“What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have actually blessed them!”

 Pro-Hamas UN Official Accidentally Declares “Recognize the State of Israel!” Three Times*

In a stunning twist, Chris Sidoti—infamous member of the UN’s anti-Israel Pillay Commission and outspoken supporter of Hamas talking points— declared three times: “Recognize the State of Israel!” when he meant to say Palestine.

Midway through his remarks, an aide in a white suit had to step in and inform Sidoti that he had used the wrong words, derailing his own argument on a live mic.

Oh, this is hilarious.

He meant recognize the state of Palestine. But that’s not what came out. And not once!

God sure has a sense of humor. pic.twitter.com/zf11WqrfCz

— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) June 20, 2025

Iran orders closure of Strait of Hormuz — putting one-fifth of world’s oil supply at risk

 

Iran’s parliament has voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping channel through which around 20% of the world’s daily oil flows.

The move, which could block $1 billion in oil shipments per day, is likely to send oil prices soaring.

Brent crude oil, the international standard, jumped 3.9% to $80 a barrel on Sunday, while US crude rose 4.3% to $77 a barrel.

The conflict between Israel and Iran has sent oil prices yo-yoing over the past week, which has in turn caused see-saw moves for the U.S. stock market, because of rising and ebbing fears that the war could disrupt the global flow of crude. Iran is a major producer of oil and also sits on the narrow Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world’s crude passes.

It will come into effect pending a final decision by Iran’s Supreme Council.

The Supreme Council’s decision must be made by tonight, according to Iran’s state-run Press TV.

Israeli Gedoilim Declare Time to Say Hallel, Drop Tachanun After Historic U.S. Airstrikes on Iran

 

Two prominent Israeli rabbis have urged Jews to alter their daily prayers in response to the recent U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Safed, announced that the traditional tachanun prayer should be omitted. Instead, he called for reciting a prayer of thanks (mizmor letodah) and recited the blessing Hatov metiv, used to mark joyous occasions shared by a community. Rabbi Eliyahu also quoted a verse from the Book of Esther foretelling the downfall of enemies plotting against the Jewish people.

Meanwhile, renowned kabbalist Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi encouraged Jews to recite the Hallel prayer, a series of psalms traditionally said on Jewish holidays to praise God. Ben Artzi, who has a large following in Israel, described the U.S. strikes as a “miracle” worthy of praise. He had previously predicted Israeli actions against Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.

The U.S. strikes targeted key Iranian sites, including the heavily fortified Fordow facility—damage to which had previously eluded Israeli forces.

Rabbi Offers Biblical Lesson to Pope

Following Pope Leo’s recent appeal for peace amid the U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Orthodox Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt offered a pointed biblical response, drawing from the Old Testament to underscore the complex nature of conflict and peace.

The Pope had tweeted: “War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures. May diplomacy silence the weapons! May nations chart their futures with works of peace, not with violence and bloodstained conflicts!”

New details on US strikes & how Iran was fooled revealed

 

The IDF continues to strike targets in Iran. This afternoon, it was reported that a Revolutionary Guards base in the Yazd area of central Iran, about 1,800 km from Israel, was attacked. This is one of the most distant targets that Israel has struck in Iran so far.

Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal revealed further behind-the-scenes details of the decision-making process within the White House.

A senior American official shared with the newspaper the discussions among senior officials prior to the strike. "There was a real debate earlier this week about what should be done, but Trump signaled on Tuesday that he was inclined to go for it, and that changed everything," the official said. "The goal was to create a situation that no one would expect," he stated, hinting that it was an American deception tactic.

After the strike last night, an American official told the newspaper that the Trump administration reached out to Iran and clarified that the attack was a "one-time issue" and not part of a war aimed at regime change.

A satellite image revealed this afternoon the damage caused to the entrance of the site and to the mountain beneath it. In Israel, it is believed that the enriched uranium was stored at the Isfahan facility, which was also attacked by the Americans last night. It is still unclear whether the uranium was destroyed or simply buried under the rubble. The AP news agency released a satellite image showing the damage at Fordow following the American strike. Analysis of the image indicates that damage was caused to the outer compound and the mountain beneath which the facility is located.

The U.S. military attacked the three largest and most important nuclear facilities in Iran overnight using a massive amount of explosives. The attack was carried out in a combined air and sea operation, and estimates suggest that it caused significant damage.

Six B-2 "Spirit" strategic bombers departed yesterday on an exceptionally long 37-hour flight from Missouri, USA, dropping 12 GBU-57 bombs on the fortified nuclear site on the mountainside at Fordow, and two more on the enrichment facility at Natanz, which had already been attacked by Israel.

The bombers are capable of carrying up to 18 tons of payload and can fly up to 11,000 km without refueling. The MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) is the most powerful non-nuclear bunker-busting bomb. According to reports, U.S. Navy submarines launched 30 Tomahawk BGM-109 cruise missiles with a range of 450 km at the nuclear sites in Natanz and Isfahan. In addition to the Tomahawks, a B-2 bomber dropped two bunker-busting bombs on the underground nuclear facility at Natanz. According to reports in the U.S., it is estimated that the nuclear facility at Fordow was destroyed or at least severely damaged.

The US attack on Iran step-by-step

 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, in a briefing to the press at the Pentagon on Sunday, went into detail about the successful covert military operation targeting Iranian nuclear infrastructure.

Dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, the mission struck three nuclear facilities inside Iran. Gen. Caine described the strike as "deliberate and precise," emphasizing the exceptional coordination and professionalism exhibited by US joint forces in what he characterized as a "complex and high-risk mission."

The objective, according to Caine, was to severely degrade Iran's nuclear weapons infrastructure. He noted that the operation was planned and carried out across multiple domains and theaters, showcasing the US military's global reach and precision.

"Very few people in Washington knew about the timing and nature of the plan," Caine stated.

The operation commenced at midnight on Friday into Saturday morning, with a large B-2 bomber strike package departing from the continental United States. A portion of the formation flew westward toward the Pacific as a decoy, a deception maneuver known only to a select group of planners and key officials in Washington and Tampa.

The main strike force, consisting of seven B-2 Spirit Bombers, flew eastward under radio silence, conducting several in-flight refuelings over the course of the 18-hour journey to the target area.

How the "gedoilim" Misled Klall Yisrael in the Midbar and How they continue to do so!

 

Skverer Rebbe Continues to Torture His Frum Neighbors Defying Local "Gedoilim"

 

See more on The Unholy Mile 

DeSantis Welcomes 1,500 Evacuated Jewish Americans at Tampa Airport

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis greeted 1,500 Jewish Americans at Tampa Int’l Airport around 5 a.m. Friday after sponsoring rescue flights from war-torn Israel, where they were stranded amid the escalating conflict with Iran.

This marks DeSantis’ second major rescue effort—he also sent planes after Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre in 2023, saying he stepped in to “fill the void” left by the Biden administration.

Florida, home to 650,000 Jews, has the 3rd-largest Jewish population in the U.S.

 

Mark Levin Exposes Another Cockroach... Boy did we miss a bullet!

 

Another cockroach reveals himself https://t.co/SlYUou7XCa

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) June 21, 2025

Chief Rabbi of Gaza Rabbi Linda Goldstein Releases Top Secret Photo of the "Bunker Bisters" Dropped on Fordow

 

I’ve been authorized to release a photograph of the Bunker Busters dropped by the USA on Fordow in Iran

Putin: “We Won’t Help Iran — Israel Is Practically a Russian-Speaking Country”

 

 Putin: “We Won’t Help Iran — Israel Is Practically a Russian-Speaking Country”

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Moscow is refraining from directly aiding Iran militarily due to its strong ties with Israel.

“Nearly two million Russian speakers live there,” he said. 

“Israel is practically a Russian-speaking country.”

The "Shomer Yisrael" Schumer the "kapo" Not Happy with US Strike on Iran

 

“No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war with erratic threats and no strategy.”

The American Attack Against Iran and Israeli Response

 

 NETANYAHU: "Congratulations, President Trump. Your bold decision to target Iran's nuclear facilities with the awesome & righteous might of the United States will change history."

Released by a Jewish Judge Pro-Hamas protester Mahmoud Khalil says he’ll keep advocating for Palestine, while bashing US government

 Anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil said he plans to continue his pro-Palestinian advocacy and bashed the US government upon landing in New Jersey Saturday on his way home to New York City after being held in a Louisiana detention facility for three months.

“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.

The administration said Khalil engaged in activities “aligned to Hamas,” the Palestinian terrorist group responsible for the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, while he was studying at Columbia.

“The US government is funding this genocide, and Columbia University is investing in this genocide,” Khalil said Saturday. “This is what I was protesting. This is what I will continue to protest with everyone of you. Not only if they threaten me with detention, even if they would kill me, I would still speak up for Palestine.”

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.”

Khamenei picks ‘3 stooges’ to replace him as fear of assassination surges

 

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.

On their way to Iran? US B-2 bombers leave Missouri airbase

 

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.

Over Shabbat: Multiple eliminations deep in 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.

 

Zera Shimshon Parshat Shlach

Trump & Netanyahu Flying Their Own Planes!