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Israel says it killed Ali Larijani, Iran’s secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, and Basij commander Gholamreza Soleimani in strikes, though Tehran has not confirmed the deaths. If verified, the killings would be the war’s highest-level leadership strikes to date and signal a major escalation, though analysts caution the moves could be symbolic and not necessarily indicate regime collapse.
The Israel Defense Forces said it destroyed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force headquarters, a major blow to the group long accused of destabilizing the region and backing proxy networks. Despite the 2020 killing of Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani, Esmail Qaani remains a key Iranian commander directing operations against Israel. The strike is described as one of the war’s most significant actions and signals a major shift in Iran’s threat capabilities in the post-war period.
At a charity gala at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump oversaw the start of a U.S. strike on Iran from a makeshift Situation Room, with top security officials present and a Middle East map on display; White House photos captured him conferring with aides as the club’s security and communications setup drew scrutiny. He did not deliver a live national address, and the operation — framed as including the killing of Iran’s top leader and resulting in American casualties — unfolded while he attended a fundraiser, highlighting tensions around using private club spaces for highly sensitive national-security decisions.
Iran has identified the alleged mastermind behind the dual suicide bombing attacks at a memorial for Gen. Qassem Soleimani, naming a Tajik national known as Abdollah Tajiki. One bomber had Tajik and Israeli nationality and was trained by ISIS in Afghanistan, while the second bomber remains unidentified. The death toll from the attack is 94, and ISIS has claimed responsibility for the blasts. Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Forces, was killed in a U.S. strike in Baghdad in 2020.