Israel’s defence minister has rowed back on his threat this morning that the “residents of Tehran will pay the price” for Iranian strikes.
Israel Katz also branded Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a “cowardly murderer” on X this morning (see 6.47am post).
Clarifying his comments a moment ago, Katz said: “There is no intention to physically harm the residents of Tehran as the murderous dictator does against the residents of Israel.
Instead, he said the residents of Tehran would pay “the price of dictatorship”.
He also told them they will need to evacuate their homes in areas “necessary to attack regime targets”.
