Head of the Intelligence Directorate: "You Are Succeeding in Turning Iran From a Distant, Third-Circle Threat Into a First-Circle One."

The Head of the Intelligence Directorate, Major General Shlomi Binder, visited the Targeting Center of the Intelligence Directorate yesterday (Wednesday).

“We struck the Quds Force very hard on the first night. This includes roughly 30 commanders, the names that were published are those of the more senior ones. But we’re talking about Chiefs of Staff and Air Force Commanders.

Two days ago, thanks to excellent work by the headquarters and command and control array, we struck one of the regime's covert headquarters in the mountains. Some of the commanders managed to flee to a secondary location. Twelve hours later, we succeeded in striking the Chief of Staff of Khatam al-Anbiya, who had fled to the same secondary location in another mountain ridge in Tehran.

We need to hunt them down wherever they flee, and you are succeeding in turning Iran, as I said earlier, from some distant place, 1,500 kilometers from here, into an army that we know how to deal with, with the sense of it being a first-circle threat. You’ve turned that third-circle threat into a first-circle one. And your ability to deliver high-value results in the coming days is integral. We need to deliver, increase the pace, and that’s exactly what we’re doing. Because this is the kind of threat that, I emphasize, the State of Israel cannot tolerate. Period. That’s the reason we launched this campaign, and that’s the reason you are working hard."