In another interesting development out of the ongoing Operation Epic Fury, or, as our Israeli allies call it, Operation Roaring Lion, the Israel Air Force (IAF) has destroyed an aircraft that was employed by the late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to coordinate with proxy groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. While the late, unlamented Ayatollah is coordinating with nothing more than six feet of Iranian soil now, there was always the possibility that this aircraft could have been put to some nefarious purpose, like spiriting regime loyalists out of harm's way.
No longer. Now the airplane has been reduced to scattered wreckage.
The Israeli Air Force said Monday that it had destroyed a plane belonging to Iran’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that the Jewish state claimed was used to convey messages and coordinate with the Islamic Republic’s terror proxies.
Translation:
The Air Force destroyed the plane of the leader of the Iranian terror regime at the "Mehrabad" airport in Tehran - the plane was used by Ali Khamenei, leader of the Iranian terror regime, additional senior officials from the terror regime, and elements in the Iranian military, to advance military procurement and manage relations with Axis countries through domestic and international flights.
The destruction of the plane impairs the ability to coordinate between the leadership of the Iranian terror regime and Axis countries, in building military power, and in the regime's rehabilitation capability. Thus, another strategic asset has been removed from the Iranian regime.
This would seem to indicate that Israel and the United States are working their way down the target list a ways; this airplane isn't so much a military asset as a regime asset, and the use for which it was put has been precluded. It's hard for Iran to coordinate with proxy groups when Iran's military infrastructure is being systematically destroyed by American and Israeli explosives, and the remaining regime members are scurrying around like rats fleeing a sinking ship.
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We still don't know where the new goblin is, or what kind of shape he's in.
The plane strike took place amid fevered speculation about the health status of Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who is believed to have been severely wounded in the Feb. 28 Israeli strike that killed his father and other family members.
Monday’s attack was confirmed one day after a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces told CNN the military was planning for three more weeks of combat operations against Iran — with “deeper plans” for another three weeks beyond that, if deemed necessary.
“We have thousand of targets ahead,” Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said told the outlet. “We are ready, in coordination with our US allies, with plans through at least the Jewish holiday of Passover, about three weeks from now [ending at sundown April 9]. And we have deeper plans for even three weeks beyond that.”
Three weeks isn't that long a time in the grand scheme of things, and if this is what it takes to put an end to the rule of Iran by a gang of vicious 7th-century thugs, so be it. They've been causing trouble in the region and around the globe long enough.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/03/16/working-their-way-down-the-target-list-israel-strikes-late-ayatollahs-aircraft-n2200266
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