Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani has been targeted in what Israeli officials describe as the most significant targeted killing since the outbreak of the war on February 28.
According to reports from Israel's Defense Minister and military sources, Larijani—widely regarded as Iran's de facto wartime leader and a key architect of its security apparatus following the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—was eliminated in a precision overnight strike in Tehran.
This strike represents a dramatic escalation, removing one of the regime's most powerful surviving figures amid the ongoing conflict with Israel and the United States. Larijani had risen to prominence as a loyalist entrusted with steering Iran through potential war and succession crises, making his reported death a potentially destabilizing blow to Tehran's leadership.
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