{"id":481674,"date":"2026-03-18T05:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481674\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:56:13","slug":"us-unleashes-powerful-bombs-on-irans-missile-sites-as-tehran-vows-retaliation-for-security-chiefs-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481674\/","title":{"rendered":"US unleashes powerful bombs on Iran’s missile sites as Tehran vows retaliation for security chief’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Death of Ali Larijani deepens crisis at heart of Iran’s leadershippublished at 05:32 GMT<\/p>\n

05:32 GMT<\/p>\n

Amir Azimi
Editor, BBC Persian<\/p>\n

\"Iran'sImage source, Anadolu via Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n

Larijani was viewed as one of Iran’s most influential political figures<\/p>\n

The Israeli air strike which killed Iran’s security chief, Ali Larijani, has removed one of the Islamic Republic’s most experienced and influential policy makers at a critical moment.<\/p>\n

Larijani was not a military commander, but he was a central figure in shaping Iran’s strategic decisions.<\/p>\n

As secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, he sat at the heart of decision-making on war, diplomacy, and national security.<\/p>\n

His voice carried weight across the system, particularly in managing Iran’s confrontation with the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n

His death comes amid a broader campaign in which several senior Iranian officials and commanders have been killed within a matter of weeks. This pattern suggests a sustained effort to weaken Iran’s leadership structure during wartime.<\/p>\n

Despite his hardline stance against the West, Larijani was often described inside Iran as a pragmatist. He combined ideological loyalty with a technocratic approach, favouring calculated strategy over rhetoric.<\/p>\n

You can read more about the impact of his death here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Death of Ali Larijani deepens crisis at heart of Iran’s leadershippublished at 05:32 GMT 05:32 GMT Amir AzimiEditor,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-481674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}