“If he had been in our sights, we would have taken him out,“ Katz told Israel’s public radio station Kan Thursday evening, adding that the military had “searched a lot”.
He told Israeli television Channel 13 Thursday that Israel would cease its assassination attempts because “there is a difference between before the ceasefire and after the ceasefire”.
But on Kan, Katz advised Khamenei to remain inside a bunker.
The movements of the supreme leader, who has not left Iran since he took power, are subject to the tightest security and secrecy.
“We won’t let Iran develop nuclear weapons and threaten (Israel) with long-range missiles”, he said.
“The material itself was not something that was supposed to be neutralised,“ he said of the enriched uranium.
A leaked US intelligence assessment estimated the programme to have set Iran back a few months, while Katz and other Israeli and US public figures said the damage would take years to rebuild.
The war erupted on June 13 when Israel launched a bombing campaign that it said aimed to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon -- an ambition Iran has consistently denied.
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