
Israeli officials say Iran's top security figure, Ali Larijani, was killed in a strike on Tehran on Tuesday, just days after his final, barbed message on X invoked Jeffrey Epstein and took direct aim at Donald Trump's claims about the war.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz told reporters in Israel on 17 March that Larijani, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, died alongside the head of the Basij paramilitary force in what he called a 'precise' operation guided by intelligence.