The clerical body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader, succeeding the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has more or less reached a majority consensus, Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said on Sunday.

The Mehr news agency quoted him as saying “some obstacles” still needed to be resolved regarding the process.

On Saturday, a senior cleric in the Assembly of Experts said its members would meet “within one day” to choose the leader. Iranian media said the group had a minor disagreement over whether their final decision must follow an in-person meeting or instead be issued without adhering to this formality.

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Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, another member of the Assembly of Experts, said in a video released by Nournews on Sunday that an in-person meeting by the assembly for a final vote was not possible under current conditions.

He said a candidate had been picked, based on the late supreme leader’s advice that Iran’s top leader should “be hated by the enemy” instead of praised by it.

“Even the Great Satan (the United States) has mentioned his name,” Heidari Alekasir said of the chosen successor, days after US President Donald Trump said that Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba, was an “unacceptable” choice for him.

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Trump has also said that the US should have a role in choosing the new supreme leader, a demand Iran has rejected. However, two influential and strict Iranian clerics called for the swift selection of a new supreme leader to help guide ​the nation amid deepening regional tensions, Iranian media reported on Saturday.

The calls by the clerics suggest that at least some in the clerical establishment are uncomfortable with leaving a three-man council in ​charge, even temporarily under constitutional rules.

The calls come as the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, and the Islamic Republic’s retaliatory attacks, continue across the region. Israel said it had initiated fresh strikes across Iran today, as a war that has brought chaos to the Middle East and roiled global oil markets entered its second week.

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Iranian attacks also continue targeting US military bases in the region. Drones have struck targets in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, officials in both countries said early Sunday.

The governments of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates reported Iranian drone attacks in their countries on Saturday and early Sunday with varying degrees of damage but no reported deaths. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards also targeted US forces at a base in Bahrain, Iranian state media said.