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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the military to prepare an enforcement plan against Iran following their 12-day war, he announced on Friday in a statement.

The plan "includes maintaining Israel's air superiority, preventing nuclear advancement and missile production, and responses to Iran for supporting terrorist activities against Israel," Katz added.

He warned Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his regime, whom he labeled "the toothless serpent's head in Tehran," that this operation was only a "preview of a new Israeli policy: After October 7, immunity is over.

Blow to Iran may advance IDF's goals in Gaza

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir said in Gaza that Iran has faced severe setbacks since the war, and that the blow to Iran may advance the IDF's goals in Gaza. 

INCOMING IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir (L) visits the Western Wall with his outgoing predecessor, Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi, earlier this year.
INCOMING IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir (L) visits the Western Wall with his outgoing predecessor, Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi, earlier this year. (credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

“In the near future, we will reach the lines we defined for the current phase of the Gaza operation,” Zamir said, adding that at that point, political leadership will be presented with options for moving forward.