Iran’s Supreme Leader Urges Eradication of Israel, Calling It a ‘Cancer’

Iranian supreme leader Khamenei said today that Israel is a “cancer” that will be eradicated by the ongoing terrorist attacks by Tehran’s proxies in Gaza, in some of his first comments since they began today.

“God willing, the cancer of the usurper Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the Resistance forces throughout the region,” he wrote on Twitter this afternoon, while sharing a video of dozens of people running, apparently away from Hamas operatives.

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched a rocket barrage out of the Gaza strip and sent personnel rushing into towns in Israel’s south, where they massacred civilians and took several hostages back with them.

The death toll in Israel has risen to 300 people, according to the Israeli television channel Kan. Israel’s Defense Forces said that Hamas has launched over 3,000 rockets since Saturday morning.

Khamenei has spoken in the days leading up to today’s attacks about how Israel “is coming to an end,” but his first comments about today’s events came this afternoon on Twitter.

Earlier today, a top Khamenei adviser, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, called the killings “glorious,” according to Tehran Times, an Iranian propaganda outlet. Safavi was speaking at the 6th International Conference of Solidarity with Palestinian Youth, where he also declared Iran’s “support for this operation” and said that Tehran will support it until the “liberation” of Palestine and Jerusalem.

Iran funds both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the two main terrorist groups behind today’s assault. The U.S. has designated both groups as foreign terrorist organizations.

Israel’s foreign ministry said that Iran is ultimately behind the massacres and rocket attacks.

“Those terror organizations are working as proxies of the Ayatollah regime,” Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Lior Haiat told Fox News today.

“Iran is trying for years, especially in the last few months, to have a terror organization, both the Islamic Jihad that is fully supported and financed by Iran, and Hamas terror organization that is also financed but not fully by Iran. They are calling them to attack Israel and Israelis.”

Haiat also told Fox that Iran is “behind the scenes” of the ongoing attacks.

Iran’s involvement in the attacks has become a focus of Republican officials, who argue that the Biden administration’s recent prisoner-swap deal resulted in the release of $6 billion in frozen funds previously held by South Korean banks.

“Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden Administration,” former president Trump, the GOP presidential frontrunner, said in a statement on Truth Social.

But the White House denied that that was the case and said that the funds have not been spent yet. “Not a single cent from these funds has been spent, and when it is spent, it can only be spent on things like food and medicine for the Iranian people,” national security council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said on Twitter.

Former State Department official Gabriel Noronha argued that even though the funds have not yet been released that the deal nonetheless allowed Iran to free up $6 billion to support its terror proxies that it would have spent elsewhere.

In a speech earlier today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his country is “at war.”

In a videotaped speech Saturday night, Netanyahu said that Israel is preparing an operation using its “full power.”

“I’m telling the people of Gaza: get out of there now, because we’re about to act everywhere with all our force,” he said.