{"id":23178,"date":"2026-03-17T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/23178\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:32:07","slug":"irans-ali-larijani-basij-paramilitary-head-eliminated-in-tehran-strike-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/23178\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Ali Larijani, Basij paramilitary head eliminated in Tehran strike: Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Defence Minister <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/israel-katz?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel Katz<\/a> said on Tuesday that Iran\u2019s powerful national security chief <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/ali-larijani?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ali Larijani<\/a> was \u201celiminated last night\u201d, along with the commander of Tehran\u2019s Basij paramilitary force, General Gholam Reza Soleimani.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI have just been updated by the Chief of Staff that Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, and the head of the Basij \u2013 Iran\u2019s central repression apparatus \u2013 [Soleimani], were eliminated last night,\u201d Katz said in a statement released by his ministry.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There was no confirmation from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The killings again strip away top leaders from the Iranian theocracy after the February 28 strike that killed 86-year-old supreme leader Ayatollah <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/ali-khamenei?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ali Khamenei<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Commander of Iran\u2019s Basij paramilitary force Gholam Reza Soleimani gives a press conference in Tehran in November 2019. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cde6b6cc-d5cc-4084-bb83-2120a9c50fa1_4cd4aedd.jpg\" title=\"Commander of Iran\u2019s Basij paramilitary force Gholam Reza Soleimani gives a press conference in Tehran in November 2019. Photo: AP\"\/>Commander of Iran\u2019s Basij paramilitary force Gholam Reza Soleimani gives a press conference in Tehran in November 2019. Photo: APThe <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/israel?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israeli<\/a> military said a strike on Monday killed Soleimani, but Iran did not immediately acknowledge the militia leader\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Iran\u2019s powerful national security chief Ali Larijani was \u201celiminated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[773,89,2140,847,1092,11380,100,34,1049,37,99,11379,93,510,69,11378],"class_list":{"0":"post-23178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-ali-larijani","9":"tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","10":"tag-basij","11":"tag-beirut","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-general-gholam-reza-soleimani","14":"tag-hezbollah","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-iranian-red-crescent","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-israel-katz","19":"tag-kfar-sir","20":"tag-lebanon","21":"tag-supreme-national-security-council","22":"tag-tehran","23":"tag-us-treasury"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116244064029639201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}