TEL AVIV — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told ABC News in the United States that he has not ruled out eliminating Iran’s Supreme Leader, claiming it would end not escalate the ongoing fighting.

"We've had half a century of conflict spread by this regime that terrorizes everyone in the Middle East; has bombed the Aramco oil fields in Saudi Arabia; is spreading terrorism and subversion and sabotage everywhere," Netanyahu said.

Those comments to US media come on the same day that a US official said that President Donald Trump had previously vetoed an Israeli plan to assassinate Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Israel reportedly recently told the Trump administration that it had a plan to kill Khamenei, according to the source who spoke to AP on the condition of anonymity.

The White House voiced its opposition to the move, the official said. — Euronews