Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme Nationwide Safety Council, arrives in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 27, 2025, to attend a memorial service for Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
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Israeli Protection Minister Israel Katz mentioned on Tuesday that Iran’s safety chief, Ali Larijani, had been killed in airstrikes in a single day.
Katz mentioned in an announcement that he had been knowledgeable by the army that Larijani and the commander of Iran’s Basij forces, Gholamreza Soleimani, had each been killed, in keeping with Reuters.
Iran has not but confirmed the report.
A handwritten message attributed to Larijani was printed on social media on Tuesday morning. The submit confirmed a handwritten message commemorating sailors of Iran’s Navy who had been killed, in keeping with a Google translation.
Larijani was seen because the right-hand man of Iran’s late supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in strikes aimed toward high-ranking Iranian officers in the beginning of the conflict on Feb. 28.
Iran has since retaliated by attacking its Gulf neighbors and focusing on ships making an attempt to go by way of the strategically important Strait of Hormuz.
Gholamreza Soleimani, a senior officer within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who instructions Basij forces, attends a gathering throughout Basij Week within the Iranian capital Tehran on November 24, 2019.
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Iran’s Soleimani led the Basij forces, a key paramilitary pressure used to quell protests within the Islamic Republic.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned in a social media submit on Tuesday morning that Netanyahu had ordered the elimination of senior officers of the Iranian regime.
Larijani was final seen in public on March 13, in keeping with a social media account in his title, which posted an image that day of him collaborating within the Quds Day march in Iran’s capital, Tehran.
An earlier submit from the account mentioned Iran was not fearful of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats in opposition to Iran, saying that “even these higher than you could possibly not eradicate the Iranian nation.”
“Be careful for your self—lest you be eradicated!” the account posted on March 10, in keeping with a translation.
The U.S. and Israeli-led conflict in opposition to Iran entered its 18th day on Tuesday, with no let-up within the assaults from each side.
Iran has focused power and transport infrastructure within the United Arab Emirates as a part of its retaliatory strikes, boosting considerations of a protracted world power disaster.
