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(SeaPRwire) –   Mossad Director Dadi Barnea declared on Tuesday that Israel’s operations targeting Iran will cease “only once the extremist regime in Iran is replaced.”

Barnea made this statement during a Holocaust commemoration event, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.

“We meticulously planned so that our operations would continue and manifest themselves even in the period following the strikes in Tehran,” Barnea was quoted as saying. He reportedly added, “Our commitment will be fulfilled only once the extremist regime in Iran is replaced.”

“Forty days of intense combat have led to highly significant achievements, foremost among them a blow to the enemy’s central objective — the destruction of the State of Israel,” Barnea further stated, according to Ynetnews. He concluded, “However, our mission has not yet been completed.”

Israel commenced its Operation Roaring Lion against Iran on February 28, the same day the U.S. military launched Operation Epic Fury.

The joint U.S.-Israel effort has severely damaged Iran’s military and missile infrastructure and resulted in the death of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei.

Reuters reported earlier this week that Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is severely disfigured after sustaining leg and face injuries during initial airstrikes on Tehran in February.

Khamenei is recovering after incurring these injuries in the February 28 airstrikes that killed his father.

Digital’s Robert McGreevy contributed to this report.