Iran's 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cuts an increasingly lonely figure. Khamenei has seen his main military and security advisers killed by Israeli air strikes, leaving major holes in his inner circle and raising the risk of strategic errors,

The IDF said that Ali Shadmani’s elimination was part of a series of eliminations targeting Iran’s top military command, dealing another blow to the chain of command of Iran’s armed forces.

Netanyahu stated that targeting Iranian leader Khamenei would end the ongoing conflict.