{"id":25032,"date":"2026-03-18T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/25032\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:21:12","slug":"israel-kills-iranian-security-chief-ali-larijani-in-airstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/25032\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel kills Iranian security chief Ali Larijani in airstrike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s security chief Ali Larijani was killed by Israel, the government confirmed on Tuesday, the most senior figure targeted since the U.S.-Israeli war\u2019s first day, while a senior Iranian \u200bofficial said Iran\u2019s new supreme leader rejected de-escalation offers conveyed by intermediary countries.<\/p>\n<p>Larijani was widely viewed as one of Iran\u2019s most powerful figures and a confidant of slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his \u200cson and successor, Mojtaba. The security chief had a reputation for pragmatic relations with other factions in the ruling system and foreign diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s son Mojtaba was chosen by Iran\u2019s Assembly of Experts to succeed his late father as supreme leader,\u00a0more than a week \u200cafter he was killed in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/irans-ali-khamenei-who-based-iron-rule-fiery-hostility-us-israel-dies-86-2026-03-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">air strike<\/a>, Iranian media reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s security chief Ali Larijani was killed by Israel, the government confirmed on Tuesday, the most senior figure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[352,353,37,351,350],"class_list":{"0":"post-25032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-graphics","9":"tag-interactives","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-reuters","12":"tag-reuters-graphics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116250390463945330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25032","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=25032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}