Nigeria, March 17 -- Israel's Minister of Defence, Israel Katz, says the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, and the commander of the internal Basij militia, Gholamreza Soleimani, have been killed.

Al Jazeera reports that Mr Katz said that the top Iranian security officials were killed by Israeli strikes. He announced this in a social media post on Tuesday.

Mr Larijani's death, if confirmed, will be the latest high-profile killing in the ongoing war with the US and Israel. It will follow the assassination of the former Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, who was killed by a joint US-Israel strike at his residence on 28 February.

"The leaders of the regime are being killed and their capabilities termin...