{"id":81008,"date":"2026-03-04T08:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81008"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:29:50","slug":"israel-threatens-khamanei-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/israel-threatens-khamanei-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Threatens Khamenei Successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the New York Post\u00a0<\/em>[caution tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/women-hold-pictures-assassinated-iranian-122672070.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A woman holds up a photo of Ali Khamenei during a pro-Iranian regime protest outside the US Embassy in Rome on March 3, 2026.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Israel threatened to eliminate Iran\u2019s next regime leader selected to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei if the successor continues his ideology \u2014 as the\u00a0supreme leader\u2019s son emerged as the favored front-runner.\u00a0\u201cEvery 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 \u2014 will be an unequivocal target for elimination,\u201d Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz\u00a0wrote on X\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not matter what his name is or the place where he hides. The Prime Minister and I have instructed the IDF to prepare and act by all means to carry out the mission as an integral part of the objectives,\u201d Katz said of Israel\u2019s Operation \u201cLion Roar,\u201d the military operation working alongside the<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/03\/world-news\/war-with-iran-live-updates-march-3-4-5-26\/\">US\u2019s Operation Epic Fury.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1772612976\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Israel Threatens Khamenei Successor\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post\u00a0[caution tabloid]: Israel threatened to eliminate Iran\u2019s next regime leader selected to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}