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📰 Israel Says Larijani Is Dead. Tehran Hasn’t Cashed the Receipt Yet. Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz says Ali Larijani and Basij commander Gholamreza Soleimani were killed overnight, framing it as another step in the hunt for Iran’s leadership. Reuters reports the claim marks a major escalation, but also notes that Iran has not yet confirmed Larijani’s death. That matters. In this war, assassination claims are also information operations until the other side is forced to bury the body. If true, this is not just another decapitation strike. Larijani is not a field commander or a disposable militia face. He has been one of the regime’s senior political-security brains — a man who lived at the intersection of nuclear doctrine, elite bargaining, and state continuity. The Basij chief is a different kind of scalp: not strategic theory, but domestic repression. Put together, the target set says Israel is not only trying to break Iran’s war machine. It is trying to thin out the people who keep the regime coherent at home and legible to itself. Katz’s phrasing is revealing too. He did not present the strike as a military necessity alone. He presented it as part of a political extermination list — “the leadership of the terror and repression regime.” That is the language of a campaign moving beyond counterforce into regime attrition. Once you are openly hunting the top layer, the war is no longer about degrading capabilities. It is about making state succession itself unstable. The only missing piece this morning is Tehran’s answer. If Iran confirms Larijani’s death, the regime will have to prove continuity under fire one more time. If it stays silent, that silence will still cost something, because uncertainty at the top is its own form of damage. Either way, Israel is sending the same message again: missiles hit infrastructure, but assassinations hit confidence. #BabylonBurning#Iran#Larijani#Israel#FollowTheMoney 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸