Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

Calls for the assassination of Iran's supreme leader are growing in Israel.

Speaking to reporters today, Israel's defense minister compared Ayatollah Ali Khomeini to Hitler,

and reiterated it was time for Iran's supreme leader to go.

And here's Hidal al-Shalchi has more.

Speaking to reporters in Hulon, the worst hit suburb of Tel Aviv Thursday, Israeli defense

minister Israel, Katz, said that killing Iran's supreme leader is a goal of the war.

The Israeli military was directed and knows that in order to achieve all the objectives

of the war, this man certainly cannot continue to exist, he said.

Earlier this week, Katz said, quote, we will strike the Iranian dictator everywhere.

That came after the Israeli military struck in Iranian state TV studio.

About the supreme leader, President Trump posted this

week on his social media platform, truth social, quote, we know exactly where he is, but added,

quote, we are not going to take him out, kill at least for now. Hadil al-Shaljean, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

Meanwhile, President Trump says he will decide whether the U.S. will strike Iran soon.

White House Press Secretary, Caroline Levitt, today.

I have a message directly from the president, and I quote,

based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future. I will make my decision

whether or not to go within the next two weeks. And as the Trump administration weighs whether to

join Israel in its conflict with Iran, European leaders are pushing for diplomacy. As NPR's

Rob Schmidt's reports from Berlin, Iran's foreign minister is set to meet with his counterparts tomorrow.

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Arakchi is scheduled to meet with the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom in Geneva.

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