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Top adviser to Khamenei claims planned Israeli strike on Iran’s top leaders ‘didn’t happen’
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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)
Ali Larijani, a top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, claims Israel did not carry out a planned operation to assassinate Iran’s top leadership in an airstrike during its 12-day war, in an Iranian media interview.
“Israelis had located a meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and planned to strike it to kill the heads of the three branches of power, then assassinate the supreme leader to finish off Iran altogether, but that didn’t happen,” Larijani says, according to a translation by Iran International.
Larijani also says that on June 12, he received a threat to leave Iran within 12 hours or he would share the fate of other top officials killed by Israel.
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