India, March 15 -- Amid rumours of his assassination, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Sunday vowed to "pursue and kill" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who they described as a "child-killing criminal".

"If this child-killing criminal is alive, we will continue to pursue and kill him with full force," the Guards said in a statement on their website Sepah News.

The threat comes just hours after the Israeli PM's office dismissed reports of Netanyahu's assassination and said that the premier is fine.

Several unverified claims and reports were doing the rounds on social media after a video posted on Netanyahu's X handle seemingly showed the Israeli PM with six fingers, sparking rumours of the footage being manipulated...