Tehran/Tel Aviv, March 19 -- The Iranian government on Wednesday confirmed that Esmail Khatib, the Minister of Intelligence, was killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike in Tehran.
This targeted operation marks the third assassination of a high-ranking Iranian official within a 24-hour window during the ongoing conflict.
Khatib's death follows that of Ali Larijani, the head of the supreme national security apparatus, and the commander of the Basij militia, Gholamreza Soleimani.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, confirmed the killing of the intelligence chief, saying on X: "The cowardly assassination of my dear colleagues Ismail Khatib, Ali Larijani, and Aziz Nasirzadeh, alongside some of their family members and accompanying team, has...