Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, has claimed that Iran’s security chief, Ali Larijani, was killed in an airstrike last night. However, there has been no comment from Iran yet. Ali Larijani is the influential secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC). He was appointed in August 2025 as secretary of the SNSC as the representative of Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to the council. He has also been described as an adviser to the late supreme leader. He also served as speaker of Iran’s parliament for 12 years, from 2008 to 2020.

Israel’s military also claimed that it had killed Basij paramilitary force commander Gholamreza Soleimani in a strike in central Tehran. According to reports, since 2019, Soleimani has headed the Basij forces, making him a key figure in Iran’s internal security apparatus. The Basij force, with an estimated 450,000 personnel, is part of Iran’s armed forces and has been involved in internal security operations.