Ynet
Leading Israeli news website; corroborated Israel Hayom's Khamenei medical reporting and added Pezeshkian clinical involvement detail.
Ynet, the Israeli news site owned by Yedioth Ahronoth, first carried Defence Minister Israel Katz calling Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei 'a dead man' on 1 July 2026, prompting an Iranian warning of an 'immediate and powerful response'.
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If Pezeshkian is managing Khamenei's care, who is actually running Iran's war response?
Timeline for Ynet
Mentioned in: Gulf capitals split over the reprieve
Iran Conflict 2026Katz calls Iran's heir 'a dead man'
Iran Conflict 2026Mentioned in: IDF kills a Lebanese army colonel
Iran Conflict 2026Khamenei rules Iran by handwritten courier
Iran Conflict 2026Background
Ynet (Ynet.co.il) is the digital news Arm of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's long-running mass-circulation newspaper. Founded in 1995, it has grown into one of Israel's most-read news sites and operates with editorial independence from Yedioth Ahronoth's own centre-right leanings, covering breaking security, political and social news around the clock.
Through the Iran war, Ynet has functioned repeatedly as an early conduit for high-stakes Israeli government messaging directed at Tehran, carrying ministerial threats and intelligence-adjacent reporting on Iran's leadership before other outlets pick them up. That role gives its Iran coverage particular weight even when the underlying claims, such as Defence Minister remarks about Khamenei, cannot be independently verified from Tehran.
Ynet keeps breaking Khamenei threats
Ynet reported on 1 July that Defence Minister Israel Katz had called Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei 'a dead man', prompting Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to warn of an 'immediate and powerful response' if Israel acted on the threat.
The outlet had already positioned itself as a first-mover on Khamenei's condition three months earlier, corroborating Israel Hayom's reporting that he was managing serious war injuries through handwritten notes and adding that President Masoud Pezeshkian was personally involved in his care. Katz's near-identical March threat against Khamenei, repeated here, suggests Ynet is relaying a standing Israeli line rather than a new operational signal.
