India, March 17 -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Iran's top security official Ali Larijani was killed in strikes carried out by Israel on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, just hours after Israel's defence minister Israel made the same announcement.

However, Tehran has not yet confirmed the death of Larijani, who was Iran's top nuclear negotiator and a close ally of late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Apart from Larijani, Netanyahu also said that Israel killed Gholam Reza Soleimani, another top security official of Iran and the head of the Revolutionary Guard's all-volunteer paramilitary Basij force.

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