Iran’s national security council confirms death of its chief, Ali Larijani
by Patrick Wintour in London and Lorenzo Tondo in Jer from World news | The Guardian on (#749V6)
Larijani was killed by an Israeli airstrike and is the most senior Iranian fatality since Ali Khamenei on first day of war
Iran's supreme national security council has confirmed the death of its chief, Ali Larijani, after Israel said it had killed him in an airstrike.
The pure souls of the martyrs embraced the purified soul of God's righteous servant, Martyr Dr Ali Larijani," the council said on Tuesday evening, adding that his son and his bodyguards had died with him.
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