The Minister of Defense of Israel, Israel Katz, has announced, in statements he made to the press, that his country's military forces have assassinated the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Ali Larijani, in an air attack on the night of this Monday to Tuesday. Larijani was considered the "strongman" of Iran's regime after the assassination of Ali Khamenei.
Likewise, they have confirmed the death of the head of the Basij paramilitary force, Golamreza Soleimani. "Lariyani and the commander of the Basij were eliminated during last night and have joined in the depths of hell to Jameneí, head of the annihilation program, along with those eliminated in the axis of evil," Katz has said.
🔴 COMMANDER OF THE BASIJ UNIT ELIMINATED
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 17, 2026
Yesterday, the IDF targeted & eliminated Gholamreza Soleimani, who operated as commander of the Basij unit for the past 6 years.
Under Soleimani, the Basij unit led the main repression operations in Iran, employing severe violence,… pic.twitter.com/aJ0dNtCFz0The Minister of Defense has continued to affirm that both he and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, have ordered the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), that they must "repeatedly cut off the octopus's head and prevent it from growing back". "The IDF will continue to operate in Iran with great intensity, attacking regime assets, eliminating missile launch capabilities, and destroying key strategic infrastructure in all fields, causing Iran to take several decades backward", -according to statements collected by ‘Europa Press’.
