Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The Israel-Iran war has been going on for a week,

and the conflict between two of the Middle East's most powerful countries shows no sign of letting up,

and neither does the rhetoric. Today, Israel's defense minister threatened to eliminate Iran's supreme leader.

And peers, Jane Aream, has more.

This region is extremely rattled by those renewed Israeli threats to kill the supreme leader,

Ayatollah Ali Khamani.

Israeli defense minister Israel Katz put it this way.

He said the Israeli military had, quote, been instructed and knows that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man absolutely should not continue to exist.

And Pierce Jane Arraf reporting from Amman.

Adding to the tension, recent comments by President Trump on social media saying the U.S. and Israel know exactly where

how many is, but that they would not kill him for now.

Trump is also weighing whether or not the U.S. will enter the war between Israel and Iran.

White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says he will make the decision within the next two weeks.

In Pierce-Cat-Lonsdorf reports, the U.S. has a bomb

thought to be capable of reaching even Iran's most well-protected nuclear facility.

The most fortified nuclear facility in Iran is called Fordot, located deep inside a mountain.

And the U.S. has the only bomb that could damage it, because of its size, that 30,000-pound bomb can only be carried by a B-2 stealth bomber, also something only the U.S. has. Most experts agree that the bomb could cause serious, possibly even debilitating damage to the facility, although it could take several hits. The real question is whether that would stop Iran's nuclear program

or simply put it on hold, as Iran would still have the scientists and knowledge to start

it back up again.

Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency has warned such an attack could cause

radioactive contamination.

Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Washington.

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