Iran’s slain former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, did not pick a successor before his death, a member of the body tasked with choosing his replacement told semiofficial Iranian news agency Mehr News.

Ayatollah Abbas Kaabi said that Khamenei, who was 86 when he was killed as the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran last week, had been previously pressed to “name a specific individual” but had declined to do so.

“When the committee wished to present the names they had in mind, he refused to hear any names specifically,” he said.

The Assembly of Experts is Iran’s deliberative body responsible for picking the nation’s supreme leader.

Israel has threatened to kill anyone appointed to the role. President Donald Trump said yesterday that he would like a hand in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader.