Breaking news: Israel has announced that it killed Iranian security chief Larijani and the comman...

Israel has claimed to have killed Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and the commander of the internal Basij militia, Gholamreza Soleimani, with no confirmation or denial by Iran so far. Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz made the claim of Larijani’s death on Tuesday.Meanwhile, Iranian state media published a handwritten note by Larijani, though it was not clear whether it was intended as proof of the life of the senior official. Larijani’s note, published on his social media pages, commemorates 84 Iranian sailors, whose funeral is expected on Tuesday, killed in a US attack on their naval ship in international waters.If confirmed, Larijani would be the highest-level killing in the war since United States-Israeli strikes killed former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and several members of his family, on the first day of the war they launched on February 28.