Israel carried out additional attacks on the Iranian leadership overnight into Wednesday. According to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, the Iranian intelligence minister Esmail Khatib was killed in an air strike over Tehran.

Katz also warned that “significant surprises” were expected later that day. He and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized the armed forces to eliminate any senior Iranian figure without requiring further approval.

Just the day before, Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani and the commander of the powerful paramilitary Basij forces, Gholamreza Soleimani, were killed in Israeli air strikes, a fact that Iran has since confirmed.