Israel has warned Iran‘s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to listen when he emerges from his bunker to see if he can hear any ‘buzzing’ after Tehran published a ‘hit list’ of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF chiefs.

Eleven officials appear on the list, including Netanyahu, Defence Minister Israel Katz, the Chief of the General Staff of the IDF Eyal Zamir, and the Israeli police officer who served as the 19th Commissioner of Israel Police until July last year, Kobi Shabtai.

Katz made the threat on X in response to a list released by the Iranian regime of people in Israel’s political and security leadership who Tehran has marked as targets to be assassinated.

‘Iran publishes the list of senior officials in Israel’s political and security leadership designated for elimination,’ Katz wrote on X.

‘I suggest to the Iranian dictator Khamenei that when he emerges from his bunker, he occasionally looks up to the sky and listens carefully for any buzzing,’ he continued.

‘The participants of the “Red Wedding” are waiting for him there.’

A reference to a massacre in HBO’s Game of Thrones – during which an entire family is brutally murdered in a matter of minutes – ‘Red Wedding’ was the name given to Israel’s operation that took out Iran’s top military commanders in one fell swoop in June.

On the morning of June 13, when Israel launched its direct assault on Iran, more than 200 Israeli Air Force aircraft participated in opening strikes, as fighter jets dropped over 330 munitions on some 100 targets.

The operation killed the chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, the chief of Iran’s military, Mohammad Bagheri, and the head of the Emergency Command, Gholam Ali Rashid, in only a few hours.

Iranian authorities say over 627 people were killed in Iran during the 12-day conflict with Israel, including nuclear scientist Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, who was the head of Azad University in Tehran.

Israel said 28 of its civilians and one off-duty soldier were killed during the war while 3,238 people were hospitalised.

Israel killed more than 30 nuclear researchers during its assault but Iran has reportedly sent the surviving scientists into hiding.

Other targets on Iran’s hit list, published by Sabrin News, include Tomer Bar, the commander of the Israeli Air Force, Rabbi Eyal Krim, the Chief Military Rabbi and Avi Bluth, the head of Israel’s Central Command.