Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, says its military has killed Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani in a strike.
Iran has not confirmed whether Larijani has been killed or injured, but state media says an update will be issued soon.
However, Israeli media are reporting that Larijani was attacked with his son in a hideout apartment.
Israel’s Minister of Defence, Israel Katz, said Larijani had been eliminated and that he and the prime minister had instructed the military to “continue hunting down” Iran’s leadership.
The Iranian security chief had been seen in public last Friday, taking part in Quds Day rallies.
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He was a former nuclear negotiator for Iran and a close ally of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war.
There’s been no confirmation of his death from Iran.
In a photo published by Iranian news outlets and on Ali Larijani’s Telegram and X accounts, a handwritten message can be seen, which doesn’t have a time and date stamp on it, but the country’s state media reports that it is from today.
The message praises the “warriors” of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy on the day of the funeral ceremony for those who were killed on the IRIS Dena warship earlier this month.
Larijani was last pictured in public at the Quds Day march in Tehran on March 13, according to his X account, which purported to show him in the street waving and talking to supporters.
A day earlier, he taunted President Trump on social media, posting on X that “Trump says he is looking for a speedy victory. While starting a war is easy, it cannot be won with a few tweets.
“We will not relent until making you sorry for this grave miscalculation.”
In another post on March 10, Larijani said Iran was not scared of Trump’s “threats”, adding that “even those bigger than you couldn’t eliminate Iranian nation.
“Be careful, so that you won’t get eliminated,” he added.
