Jerusalem:
Ali Larijani, Iran’s safety chief, was amongst these focused in Israeli strikes on Iran in a single day, in keeping with Israeli media reviews. It stays unclear if Larijani, a prime determine in Iran’s institution, was killed or injured within the strike, in keeping with a report by Instances of Israel.
Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, has additionally claimed that Larijani has been killed.
Iran has, nonetheless, not but commented on the reviews. Larijani, a former nuclear negotiator who serves as secretary of Iran’s Nationwide Safety Council, is broadly seen as probably the most influential figures in Iran’s energy construction.
If his dying is confirmed, Larijani could be essentially the most senior Iranian official to be killed after the Supreme Chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who died on the primary day of the conflict. Larijani was an in depth ally of Ali Khamenei.
He was reportedly final seen in public throughout Quds Day rallies in Tehran on Friday. Later that day, the US provided a reward of as much as $10 million for info on senior Iranian army and intelligence officers, together with Larijani, as a part of a listing of 10 figures linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
A number of Israeli media shops additionally mentioned the strikes focused Gholamreza Soleimani, the top of the Basij Resistance Pressure, and different senior Basij figures, with the result of the strikes nonetheless being assessed. Iran, nonetheless, didn’t instantly acknowledge the militia chief’s dying.
Iran Media Points Larijani’s Assertion
In the meantime, Iran’s state media, Press TV, on Tuesday issued an announcement attributed to Larijani, the place Iran’s safety chief slammed US President Donald Trump.
“47 years in the past, on the eve of the folks’s victory within the Islamic Revolution of Iran, the prime minister of the Pahlavi regime claimed that the sound of the huge crowds chanting within the streets was not actual however quite the sound of a tape recording! Now Trump says concerning the millions-strong anti-American and anti-Israeli gatherings in Iranian cities that these photos are synthetic intelligence,” the assertion learn.
“The historic victory of the Iranian folks over the remnants of Epstein’s Island is close to”, it added.
Iran’s safety chief Ali Larijani:
🔹 47 years in the past, on the eve of the folks’s victory in Islamic Revolution of Iran, the Prime Minister of Pahlavi regime claimed that the sound of the huge crowds chanting in streets was not actual, however quite the sound of a tape recording! pic.twitter.com/cn4vj447BG
— Press TV 🔻 (@PressTV) March 17, 2026
Larijani’s Name To Islamic World
The reviews got here a day after Iran’s secretary of the Supreme Nationwide Safety Council issued a message to the Muslim world saying that Tehran stays “steadfast” in its combat in opposition to the US and Israel.
Larijani expressed disappointment at what he perceived as an absence of help from Muslim-majority international locations when Iran got here below assault.
“Iran was subjected to a treacherous American-Zionist aggression that occurred throughout negotiations and whose intention was to dismantle Iran. This aggression led to the martyrdom of the good and self-sacrificing chief of the Islamic Revolution and a lot of civilians and army commanders,” he mentioned on Monday.
