Iran confirms brutal leader Ali Larijani killed after US-Israeli airstrikes

Iranian state media confirmed that the country’s de facto leader was killed in an airstrike on Tuesday.

“Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, has been martyred,” the Fars News Agency wrote on X.

Iranian state media confirmed that the country’s de facto leader Ali Larijani was killed in an airstrike on Tuesday WAEL HAMZEH/EPA/Shutterstock

Larijani, 67, was widely seen as the Islamic Republic’s second-in-command, with the official serving as the de facto ruler after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed on Feb. 28.