Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian confirmed the deaths of Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, security chief Ali Larijani, and Basij head Gholamreza Soleimani in Israeli air strikes, reports Al Jazeera. Khatib was close to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. Israeli officials claim intelligence enabled the strikes, with Katz and Netanyahu authorising further targeted operations.
Tehran: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has confirmed that Israel killed Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib in an overnight attack, marking the third assassination of a high-ranking Iranian official in two days, Al Jazeera reported.
The announcement on Wednesday comes hours after Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz claimed the Iranian minister had been killed, as per Al Jazeera.
Iranian security chief Ali Larijani and Gholamreza Soleimani, head of the Basij paramilitary force, were also killed in Israeli air strikes on Tuesday.
Pezeshkian condemned the "cowardly assassination of my dear colleagues," saying they "left us heartbroken". In a post on X, he added that their "path will continue stronger than before", as per Al Jazeera.
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