President Masoud Pezeshkian has confirmed the killing of the country’s intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has confirmed the killing of the country’s intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, calling his death and those of several other top leaders in recent days “cowardly assassinations” in a post on X.

Israel said earlier today that Khatib, who it said was responsible for the regime’s internal repression and assassination apparatus, was “eliminated” last night.

It came after Iranian authorities yesterday confirmed that top national security official Ali Larijani and former Basij militia chief Gen. Gholam Reza Soleimani had been killed, after Israel announced their deaths.