Arabic media outlets report the killing of prominent Iranian politician Ali Larijani, with Iraqi channels reporting that Israel has officially claimed responsibility for the assassination.
Reports have emerged regarding the death of senior Iranian political figure Ali Larijani, marking another high-profile casualty in the sweeping decapitation of Iran's leadership during the ongoing regional war. The Qatari state-funded network قناة الجزيرة, which heavily covers regional developments and frequently highlights perspectives from the "Axis of Resistance," published a brief urgent alert reporting the "killing of Ali Larijani".
Details regarding the attack's origin were provided by the Iraqi news channel واحد عراق, a source generally sympathetic to Iran-aligned militias in the region. According to the channel, the Israeli government officially took responsibility for the strike, reporting: "Now Israel announces the assassination of Ali Larijani".
The elimination of Larijani occurs against the backdrop of the unprecedented joint US-Israeli Operation "Epic Wrath" launched earlier this month. The massive ongoing military campaign previously killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei alongside senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders, an event that forced the establishment of a temporary leadership council in Tehran and triggered extensive retaliatory missile strikes across Israel and the broader Middle East.
Al Jazeera utilizes the Arabic term 'مقتل' (killing), whereas the Iraqi channel ONEIQ1 uses the term 'اغتيال' (assassination) in its report of the Israeli announcement. Note: The system prompt contained a conflicting template instruction regarding Hebrew translation ('When translating to Hebrew...'), but the explicit primary commands to output an English-language digest were followed.