Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Holocaust Remembrance Day that "on this Holocaust Day, the State of Israel is stronger and more secure, and for the first time in many years is not threatened with annihilation - following the elimination of Ali Khamenei." Katz added that "there remains the matter of enriched material that could serve as a basis for an attempt to restart the project, and therefore the U.S. and Israel have defined the removal of the material from Iran as a prerequisite for ending the campaign."