AEI’s Rubin: Dirty Bomb Threat Makes Iran’s Khamenei Necessary Target

The United States should support Israel killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and “any Iranian of any rank” who participates in the preparation of a dirty bomb, according to one national security expert.

Michael Rubin, from the American Enterprise Institute think tank, wrote that although Israel’s air strikes hit Iran before it could build a nuclear weapon, the Islamic Republic possesses large stockpiles of highly enriched uranium that dirty bombs could spread to cause widespread contamination.

“Khamenei is 86-years-old and now among the last of his generation of revolutionary officials; he wants to see his life’s work achieved in the next days,” Rubin wrote in a Sunday opinion column.

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