Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu stated on Monday that taking out Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would put an end to the hostilities between Israel and the Islamic Republic — a stance he said he maintains even though President Trump had previously advised him against such a move.
“It’s not going to escalate the conflict, it’s going to end the conflict,” Netanyahu said in an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, describing Khamenei as “like a modern Hitler.”
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When pressed on whether Israel was planning to eliminate Khamenei, Netanyahu responded by saying the country was taking the necessary steps to defend itself, adding that both he and Trump were targets of an Iranian assassination attempt.

HY’D: The IDF has released the name of a fallen soldier whose family has been notified: Captain (Res.) Tal Movshovitz, 28, from Reut, deputy company commander in the 7086th Engineering Battalion, Golani Brigade, fell in battle in southern Gaza.

While Iranian state television aired a live broadcast on Monday, a sudden explosion shook the studio, sending the anchor scrambling for safety as debris and smoke filled the room. The live feed cut out abruptly after the blast.
The explosion was the result of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the headquarters of IRIB, Iran’s official state broadcasting service, marking a significant expansion in Israel’s military offensive within Iran.
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Up until this point, Israeli military officials had stated that their operations were limited to strategic sites tied to Iran’s nuclear ambitions and missile capabilities.

Anti-air guns seen firing into the night sky over the Iranian capital of Tehran, as Israel continues to strike Iran.

TRUMP: “The G7 used to be the G8. Barack Obama & a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in, & I would say that was a mistake, because I think you wouldn’t have a war right now if you had Russia in.”

A graphic posted by the IDF shows the location of most if not all of the strikes carried out so far against military targets in Northwestern Iran, with targets including military commanders, nuclear sites, air-defense systems, surface-to-surface missiles, and nuclear scientists working with the IRGC.

WhatsApp said Monday that users will start seeing ads in some parts of the app, as owner Meta Platforms moves to cultivate a new revenue stream by tapping the billions of people that use the messaging service. Advertisements will be shown only in the app’s Updates tab, which is used by as many as 1.5 billion people each day. However, they won’t appear where personal chats are located, developers said. “The personal messaging experience on WhatsApp isn’t changing, and personal messages, calls and statuses are end-to-end encrypted and cannot be used to show ads,” WhatsApp said in a blog post. It’s a big change for the company, whose founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton vowed to keep the platform free of ads when they created it in 2009.