JERUSALEM: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu asserted that Israeli strikes have successfully eliminated top Iranian nuclear scientists. In a bold address, he denounced Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, as a “puppet of the Revolutionary Guards” who is unable to appear in public. Netanyahu claimed the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign is “crushing” Iran and Hezbollah, aiming to create conditions for the Iranian people to overthrow the current regime.