Netanyahu said, “We are undermining this regime in the hope of giving the Iranian people an opportunity to remove it,” adding that it “will not happen all at once, and it will not happen easily,” but persistence would give them “an opportunity to take their fate into their own hands.”
This morning we eliminated Ali Larijani. Ali Larijani is the boss of the Revolutionary Guards, which is the gang of gangsters that actually runs Iran. Along with him, we also eliminated the commander of the Basij – this is the helpers of the gangsters, who are spreading terror in the streets of Tehran and other cities of Iran against the population. We also operate there; operating from the air… pic.twitter.com/bOwQgRZ6Ti
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) March 17, 2026
In a post on X, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said Iranians are “safer today after the IDF eliminated Basij commander Gholamreza Soleimani, his deputy, and Ali Larijani,” and added: “Mojtaba Khamenei? Still hiding. Show your face.”
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Ali Larijani was last pictured in public during the Quds Day march in Tehran on March 13, according to posts on his X account that purported to show him in the street waving and interacting with supporters.
Who was Ali Larijani?
Larijani was appointed in August 2025 by President Masoud Pezeshkian as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and as the representative of Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to the body.
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Larijani had served as speaker of Iran’s parliament for 12 years, from May 2008 to May 2020. Before becoming speaker, he was Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator from 2005 to 2007.
