Israel warned Wednesday that its military was authorized to target any senior figure of Iran after claiming to have killed Tehran’s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib.
The announcement, a day after Iranian security chief Ali Larijani was confirmed killed in an Israeli strike, is part of a longstanding strategy by Israel to target its enemy's leaders.
"Last night Iran's Intelligence Minister Khatib was also eliminated," Israeli Defense Minister Katz said in a statement.
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have authorized the IDF to eliminate any senior Iranian official for whom the intelligence and operational circle has been closed, without the need for additional approval," he added.
"We will continue to thwart and hunt them all down."
