Iran’s intelligence minister was assassinated on Wednesday, and the country’s new supreme leader—who hasn’t been seen since taking his father’s place—vowed to get revenge. Three weeks after the battle that started with US-Israeli attacks that murdered supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the top US intelligence official in Washington stated that the Islamic republic’s leadership had been weakened but still intact.
Esmail Khatib, the minister of intelligence, was Israel’s most recent high-profile casualty. Khatib, who the US sanctioned in 2022 for allegedly engaging in cyber-related activities against the US and its allies, was killed, according to Iranian official media. Masoud Pezeshkian, the president of Iran, referred to Khatib’s murder as “an unfair assassination.” The day after it was reported that Iranian security leader Ali Larijani had been murdered in an Israeli strike, Khatib’s death was announced.
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz declared, “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have authorized the IDF to eliminate any senior Iranian official for whom the intelligence and operational circle has been closed, without the need for additional approval.” “We’ll keep thwarting them and pursuing them all.” PARS GAS FIELD HIT: Tehran declared it will retaliate with attacks on oil and gas targets throughout the Gulf after Iran’s massive Pars gas field was struck on Wednesday in the first known attacks on Iran’s Gulf energy infrastructure of the US-Israeli conflict.
Following the attack, oil prices skyrocketed, marking a significant escalation in a conflict that has already stopped shipping from the world’s most significant energy-producing region and may potentially cause long-term harm to its infrastructure. The benchmark Brent crude price increased by around 5% to surpass $108. The stock market saw a decline.
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