On X, the Israeli Air Force said it attacked Tehran's Mehrabad Airport and destroyed the plane used by Khamenei, whom Israel described as the head of Iran's \"terror regime.\"
The Air Force said the aircraft routinely transported Khamenei as well as senior regime officials and military commanders on domestic and international flights.
It also said the plane was used for clandestine missions — coordinating militarily with proxy forces in the so‑called \"axis of resistance\" and ferrying overseas military supplies and strategic components.
The Air Force added that destroying the aircraft would seriously disrupt coordination between Iran's leadership and its allies, and that the strike significantly degraded the regime's command-and-control and its ability to rebuild militarily.
Ayatollah Khamenei was killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on the first day of the conflict, Feb. 28, and Iran has since selected his second son, Mojtaba Khamenei, as the country's new supreme leader.
