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The death of Iranian national security chief, Ali Larijani, whom Israel claimed to have killed in a targeted strike, has been confirmed.
News Central reports that Larijani’s death was confirmed in a post written in Arabic shared on his X profile on Tuesday night.
“Muslim peoples and the free people of the world: A servant of God has joined God. A servant among God’s servants has joined his Lord as a martyr,” the post read.
Larijani’s death will be a major blow to Iran, whose long-serving leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed less than three weeks ago in US-Israeli strikes that ignited a war in the Middle East.
Credit: X.
Israeli Prime Minister had described Larijani as a key figure in the Iranian government, calling him “the boss of the Revolutionary Guards, which is the gang of gangsters that actually runs Iran.”
“Alongside him, we also eliminated the commander of the Basij—the henchmen of the gangsters, who spread terror in the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities against the population,” Netanyahu said in a televised statement.
David Khalfa, co-founder of the Atlantic Middle East Forum, told AFP that Larijani “has effectively been the figure in charge of the regime’s survival, its regional policy and its defence strategy”.
“It’s the supreme leader who gives the order, but he is the one who carries it out. He is the right-hand man,” he said.
