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Defense Minister Katz says Ali Larijani killed in Israeli airstrike
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Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, delivers a statement after meeting with Lebanon's parliament speaker in Beirut on November 15, 2024. (AFP)
Top Iranian official Ali Larijani was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Iran last night, Defense Minister Israel Katz says.
The IDF confirmed targeting Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s National Security Council.
The IDF, meanwhile, said that a separate strike killed Basij paramilitary force commander Gholamreza Soleimani.
“Larijani and the Basij commander were eliminated overnight and joined the head of the annihilation program, Khamenei, and all the eliminated members of the axis of evil, in the depths of hell,” Katz says during an assessment this morning, according to his office.
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