We are doing what we need to do,” the Israeli leader told ABC News when asked if he plans to go after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

President Donald Trump has claimed the United States knows the location of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but does not want him killed "for now".

In its airstrikes, Israel has targeted the assets and leadership of the Quds Force, an arm of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard.

Gen. Mehdi Rabbani was a top-ranking official and served as the deputy commander of operations for the Iranian Armed Forces.

Several senior military commanders have been killed since Friday including Khamenei's main advisers from the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's elite military force: the Guards' overall commander Hossein Salami, its aerospace chief Amir Ali Hajizadeh who headed Iran's ballistic missile program and spymaster Mohammad Kazemi.

"Israel is being assisted this way or that way by some Iranians," ex-Israeli National Security chief Giora Eiland told Newsweek.

President Donald Trump said Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear weapon on June 17 while taking questions from reporters on Air Force One.