Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is determined to avenge the killing of the security chief and the country's top strategist Ali Larijani in a US-Israeli strike on March 17. Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is determined to avenge the killing of the security chief and the country's top strategist Ali Larijani in a US-Israeli strike on March 17. Undoubtedly, justice will be served," he said in his first statement after Ali Larijani's killing. The US-Israeli war on Iran started with the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, father of the current supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, alongside a group of military commanders and shows no sign of ending soon, with many more senior officials now targeted by air strikes. Iran launched several cluster bombs in Tel Aviv, Israel's capital, in retaliation to Ali Larijani's killing.

Source: dna March 18, 2026 17:12 UTC