Israel stated it killed Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib in an in a single day strike in Tehran, shortly after the assassinations of two of the Iranian regime’s most senior officers.
“The intensity of the strikes in Iran is reaching a new level,” Defense Minister Israel Katz stated in a press release Wednesday, a day after saying the killings of Ali Larijani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, and Gholamreza Soleimani, commander of the Basij paramilitary pressure.
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