As the funeral procession for Iran’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei makes its way through Tehran, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz vows that any future Iranian leaders who try to harm Israel will face the same fate as him.

Axar.az informs, citing Times of Israel, Khamenei, Katz said, “was assassinated by Israel because he set in motion and led the plan to destroy Israel.”

“The assassin was assassinated,” he noted. “Any Iranian leader who tries to push plans to destroy Israel again will also be thwarted.”

He said that calls from funeral-goers for Iran to take revenge against US President Donald Trump “are a disgrace and indicate the true nature of the ayatollah regime.”

Katz stressed that although the US-Israeli war on Iran “removed the immediate threat of Israel’s destruction and significantly damaged Iran’s strategic capabilities,” Jerusalem remains on alert and is “prepared to once again defend itself on its own, at any time and against any threat.”