ATHENS, Greece \u2014 One after another, Israel has taken out Iran\u2019s top leaders.<\/p>\n
First it was Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a> , killed in the opening shots of the war<\/a> . Now Ali Larijani,<\/a> the secretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council who was considered one of the most powerful figures in the country, has also been killed. As have a raft of other top-ranking<\/a> military and political leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS, Greece \u2014 One after another, Israel has taken out Iran\u2019s top leaders. First it was Supreme Leader…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122,42,117780,9151,3896,170232,43,238,7319,40,38,41,39,121,12526,126],"class_list":["post-349440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-iran-war","tag-islam","tag-military-and-defense","tag-ml-iran-us-leadership-explainer","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}