Israel claims it has assassinated Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani who taunted Donald Trump on the streets of Tehran last Friday.
The Israeli defence minister Israel Katz revealed Larijani and Gholamreza Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Basij forces, have joined the late Ayatollah Khamenei in the ‘depths of hell’ following an overnight airstrike.
The attack on Larijani comes four days after he marched alongside thousands of Iranians at a Quds Day rally in Tehran where he criticised Trump during a live interview.
Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz said: ‘Larijani and the Basij commander were eliminated overnight and joined the head of the annihilation program, Khamenei, and all the eliminated members of the axis of evil, in the depths of hell.’
Meanwhile an Iranian drone struck a major oil terminal in the UAE today resulting in the second fire in as many days after the complex was attacked on Monday.
Oil loading operations were temporarily suspended at Fujairah, which sits on the Gulf of Oman, yesterday after the facility was hit causing a fire to break out.
Authorities in the UAE say another blaze has broken out today.
‘Civil defence teams from the emirate intervened immediately on site and are continuing their efforts to bring the situation under control,’ the authorities said in a statement on X.
