00:00The state funeral for Iran's late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been postponed to an unspecified future date in
00:08anticipation of an unprecedented turnout of mourners.
00:11The move comes as Israel threatened that any successor to him would be a target for elimination.
00:19Israel's Defence Minister, Israel Katz, made the threat on social media, following reports that Khamenei's son, Mojabah Khamenei, was chosen
00:27as his successor.
00:29Iranian media as well as the New York Times citing sources earlier reported that Iranian clerics were considering announcing 56
00:36-year-old Mojabah Khamenei as his father's successor as early as Wednesday morning,
00:41but that some had expressed reservations, fearing that it could expose him as a target for the US and Israel.
00:48Khamenei led Iran for 36 years before he was killed in a joint US-Israeli operation over the weekend.
00:54He will be buried in his home city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran.
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