{"id":25113,"date":"2026-03-18T14:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/25113\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:16:27","slug":"ali-larijani-one-of-irans-top-security-officials-is-killed-in-an-israeli-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/25113\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Larijani, one of Iran’s top security officials, is killed in an Israeli strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Ali Larijani, a top Iranian security official and a conservative force within Iran\u2019s theocracy, was killed in an Israeli strike<\/a>, Iranian authorities confirmed Tuesday. He was 67.<\/p>\n

Larijani was widely believed to be running the country following the killing of its supreme leader in U.S. and Israeli strikes late last month that sparked a widening war<\/a>. Israel said earlier Tuesday that it had killed Larijani, but it was several hours before Iran confirmed his death.<\/p>\n

He had been appointed to advise Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a> on strategy in nuclear talks with the Trump administration and traveled to Oman to meet with mediators<\/a> just two weeks before the war began. Like other top Iranian leaders, Larijani was under heavy U.S. sanctions and implicated in the violent repression of mass protests<\/a> in January. <\/p>\n

He was ineligible to become supreme leader after Khamenei\u2019s death because he is not a Shiite cleric. But he was widely expected to serve as a top adviser, and many believed he was running the country as U.S. and Israeli strikes have driven Iran\u2019s leadership underground. The Supreme National Security Council said his son Morteza Larijani was also killed. <\/p>\n

A week ago, after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to attack Iran \u201cTWENTY TIMES HARDER\u201d if Tehran stopped oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, Larijani responded on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sacrificial nation of Iran doesn\u2019t fear your empty threats. Even those bigger than you couldn\u2019t eliminate Iran,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBe careful not to get eliminated yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larijani was born into one of Iran\u2019s most famous political families, which many media outlets have compared to the Kennedys in the United States. One brother, Sadeq, served as the head of Iran\u2019s judiciary, while another, Mohammad Javad, was a senior diplomat who closely advised the late Khamenei on foreign affairs.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Larijani issued increasingly hard-line threats. In the 1990s, he served as Iran\u2019s culture minister, tightening censorship. He served as parliament speaker from 2008 to 2020, and most recently as head of the Supreme National Security Council.<\/p>\n

He wrote at least six philosophy books, including three exploring the works of German philosopher Immanuel Kant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Ali Larijani, a top Iranian security official and a conservative force within…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[327,773,38,197,11585,34,61,196,37,199,11583,4076,81,323,200,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-25113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-ali-khamenei","9":"tag-ali-larijani","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-immanuel-kant","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-iran-government","15":"tag-iran-war","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-israel-government","18":"tag-mohammad-javad","19":"tag-notable-deaths","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-united-states-government","22":"tag-war-and-unrest","23":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116250606563274394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25113","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=25113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}