#MojtabaKhamenei acknowledged the death of his father, signaling he was there & saw his father’s body. Khamenei also confirmed his wife, one of his sisters, his niece & the husband of his other sister also were killed in the strike.

“I had the honor of seeing his body after his martyrdom,” Khamenei said of his father. “What I saw was a mountain of steadfastness, & I was told that the fist of his intact hand had been clenched.”

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“I assure everyone that we will not refrain from avenging the blood of your martyrs. The retaliation we have in mind is not limited only to the martyrdom of the great leader of the Revolution; rather, every member of the nation who is martyred by the enemy constitutes a separate case in the file of revenge,” #MojtabaKhamenei said.

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"The problem is you remove the regime, however bad, and then you just create a political vacuum. ...So the problem is the impossibility of the mission rather than the value of the mission if we could do it."

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"It would be great if we could replace that regime. The problem with that as a military mission is that it's just very unlikely to work. It's never worked in the past, and we've tried this repeatedly, & we've tried it in different ways with a full-on occupation invasion like in Iraq, or just bombing like in Libya, or arming the opposition in Syria, or international coalition in Afghanistan, there are all sorts of ways."

~ Philip H. Gordon

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