Tel Aviv, 17 March 2026 (dpa) - Iranian security chief Ali Larijani has been killed in an airstrike in Tehran, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday.

The secretary general of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran died in a targeted attack overnight, Katz's office said, confirming earlier Israeli media reports.

Israel has already killed dozens of leading figures in the Iranian power apparatus in the current war. Supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the capital Tehran on February 28.

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