U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said in an interview on CNN that he supports the assassinations of Iranian leaders and their replacements as long as they continue their aggression in the region.

When asked by CNN’s Kate Bolduan if the goal of the United States is to kill every Iranian leader and their successors, Fetterman was unequivocal in his response.

“Yeah just keep killing, killing them until they’re until they’re gone,” the maverick senator said.

“I mean, absolutely. I saw that, I’ve read that, that they’re going to target who they ever elect to be their next leader and kill them. Absolutely. I fully support it. So that’s what’s entirely appropriate,” he added. “Now they have to decide, are we going to continue for [to] choose now peace and or now we’re going to try to destroy Israel. They really don’t have those capabilities. At this point, it’s just empty rhetoric because we all know that Iran is [isn’t] able to really project the kinds of damage.”

Bolduan pressed Fetterman on the issue, asking who should pick Iran’s next leader.

“I think [killing their leaders is] entirely appropriate until hopefully they’ll pick someone that realizes that they need to live and coexist in peace in the region and stop trying to destroy Israel and destabilize the region,” Fetterman said.

Bolduan then tried to end the interview, thanking the senator for his time, but Fetterman wasn’t done. He mocked Democrats for saying they won’t weep over the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.

“That’s just another way saying it’s a good thing that he’s been killed, right?” Fetterman said.

“I’ll call it what it is, I won’t say, well, I won’t weep for him, you know, just call it what it is — it’s like — it’s a good thing that he’s been erased now and then if they pick another one that wants to do the same thing, erase them, too,” the senator concluded.

The plan does in fact appear to be to keep eliminating Iranian leaders until the regime is no longer viewed as a threat and is weakened enough for the Iranian people to rise up and topple it.

“Every leader appointed by the Iranian terror regime to continue and lead the plan to destroy Israel, to threaten the United States and the free world and the countries of the region, and to suppress the Iranian people—will be an unequivocal target for elimination,” Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, posted on X on Wednesday.

“We will continue to act with full force, together with our American partners, to crush the regime’s capabilities and create the conditions for the Iranian people to overthrow it and replace it,” he wrote.