Keith Kellogg urges Israel to target Iran's supreme leader or nuclear sites in next response

Former National Security adviser General Keith Kellogg on Monday encouraged Israel to target Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei or Iran's nuclear sites in their next attack.

The comment comes on the one year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, where more than a thousand Israelis were killed, and which launched a massive war in the Middle East. Tensions increased between Israel and Iran after Israel began killing multiple Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon.

Kellogg praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his response to the Israel-Hamas war, but said that it was time for Israel to put Khamenei "on notice," and take him or the nuclear sites out of commission.

"I think there's an opportunity here, as long as we let the Israelis do their job. What I mean by that is this is when President [Joe] Biden makes the comment, 'well, we need to have a proportionate response to the Israelis,' no. What you want to have and just what [former] President [Donald] Trump said, you want to have a disproportionate response," Kellogg said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. "It is time you either go after the Supreme Leader Khamenei, or you go after his nuclear facilities."

Kellogg claimed that now was the time for such attacks because Iran cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons, which would destabilize the Middle East. He also claimed that the sites are within Israel's range as demonstrated by their recent attacks in Yemen.

"If [Iran] gets a nuclear weapon, that is going to totally destabilize the Middle East, because the Emiratis are going to want [one], the Saudis are going to want one, everybody's going to want one. And I don't think we allow that to happen," Kellogg said.  "Do they have a deliverable weapon? No, but they can create a weapon and that's the next step towards your true danger zone. 

"Because in my experience, John, you treat a nuclear power significantly different than you treat a non-nuclear power, and you don't want to get to that point where [Iran's] there," he added.

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.