India, March 17 -- Less than a week after Iran's top security official Ali Larijani warned US President Donald Trump that he would have to pay for the "grave miscalculation" of starting a war, Israeli government and media claimed on Tuesday that Larijani had probably been killed the previous night.

But, just after this claim came out, there was an X post by Larijani in which he paid tributes to personnel of the Iranian navy. "Their memory will forever remain in the heart of the Iranian nation, and these martyrdoms will strengthen the foundation of the Islamic Republic's military for years to come," the post said, though it did not address the Israeli claims directly.

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