{"id":24585,"date":"2026-03-18T06:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/24585\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T06:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:54:23","slug":"iran-vows-revenge-for-security-chief-larijanis-killing-as-israel-hunts-supreme-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/24585\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran vows revenge for security chief Larijani\u2019s killing as Israel hunts supreme leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIran\u2019s response to the assassination of the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council will be decisive and regrettable,\u201d Hatami said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Revolutionary Guards, Iran\u2019s powerful military force that is separate from the army, said in a statement that it had launched missiles at central Israel \u201cin revenge for the blood of martyr Dr Ali Larijani and his companions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In Israel, an Iranian missile barrage killed two people near the commercial hub Tel Aviv, medics said Wednesday, as the national railway company suspended operations due to shrapnel impact at a station in the city.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Authorities reported that falling munitions had hit multiple sites in central Israel in an overnight barrage that triggered air raid sirens across the area, after another day of heavy Israeli bombardments in Iran and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The latest deaths took the toll from missile attacks on Israel since the start of the Middle East war late last month to 14 people.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The barrage followed Israel\u2019s announcement on Tuesday it had killed Larijani. His death, confirmed by Iran hours later, represents a major blow to the Islamic Republic, whose long-serving leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed less than three weeks ago in US-Israeli strikes that ignited the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIran\u2019s response to the assassination of the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council will be decisive and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[11413,773,89,2140,38,11354,1411,100,34,37,93,49,2289,101,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-24585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-akram-al-ajouri","9":"tag-ali-larijani","10":"tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","11":"tag-basij","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-gholamreza-soleimani","14":"tag-hamas","15":"tag-hezbollah","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-lebanon","19":"tag-middle-east","20":"tag-mojtaba-khamenei","21":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","22":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116248868439310941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24585","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=24585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}