Updated On: 04 March, 2026 02:42 PM IST | Dubai | AP
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz warned that whoever is chosen to succeed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be “a target for elimination.” The statement follows Israeli strikes linked to Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for appointing the country’s next supreme leader

Israel Katz. Pic/X
Israel's defence minister on Wednesday threatened whoever Iran picks to be the country's next supreme leader, saying he will be "a target for elimination."
Israel Katz made the statement on X.
"Every leader appointed by the Iranian terror regime to continue and lead the plan to destroy Israel, to threaten the United States and the free world and the countries of the region, and to suppress the Iranian people - will be a target for elimination," he wrote.