'Not Clear If He's Dead Or Injured': Israel Targets Iran's Security Chief Ali Larijani
The reports came a day after Iran's secretary of the Supreme National Security Council issued a message to the Muslim world saying that Tehran remains "steadfast" in its fight against the US and Israel.
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Israeli media have claimed that its military has targeted Iran's security chief, Ali Larijani, in an overnight airstrike. According to a Times of Israel report, it remains unclear if Larijani, the secretary of Iran's National Security Council, was killed or injured in the strike.
Iran has not yet commented on the reports of any attack on Larijani.
However, Iran's state media, Press TV, issued a statement attributed to Larijani, where Iran's security chief slammed US President Donald Trump.
"47 years ago, on the eve of the people's victory in Islamic Revolution of Iran, the Prime Minister of Pahlavi regime claimed that the sound of the massive crowds chanting in streets was not real, but rather the sound of a tape recording! Now Trump says about the millions-strong anti-American and anti-Israeli gatherings in Iranian cities that these images are artificial intelligence," the statement read.
"The historic victory of the Iranian people over the remnants of Epstein's island is near," it added.
The reports came a day after Iran's secretary of the Supreme National Security Council issued a message to the Muslim world saying that Tehran remains "steadfast" in its fight against the US and Israel.
Larijani expressed disappointment at what he perceived as a lack of support from Muslim-majority countries when Iran came under attack.
"Iran was subjected to a treacherous American-Zionist aggression that occurred during negotiations and whose aim was to dismantle Iran. This aggression led to the martyrdom of the great and self-sacrificing leader of the Islamic Revolution and a number of civilians and military commanders," he said on Monday.
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