Two senior Iranian leaders killed in Israeli strikes
發佈日期: 2026-03-18 20:42
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Iran launched strikes toward Israel and neighboring Gulf countries early Wednesday, with explosions heard in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar and interceptions reported in Saudi Arabia.
The attacks came hours after Iranian state media confirmed Israel's military killed top Iranian security official Ali Larijani in an overnight strike, as well as General Gholam Reza Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Basij force.
Damage was visible Wednesday morning after an attack in Ramat Gan in central Israel, where an apartment building was struck overnight during an Iranian missile attack.
Israel's Magen David Adom medical service said two people were killed in Ramat Gan, a district east of Tel Aviv. Damage was also reported at a Tel Aviv train station.
Meanwhile, Israel said it killed two senior Iranian security officials in overnight strikes.
Iran later confirmed the deaths of Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and General Gholam Reza Soleimani the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Basij force.
Both men were key to Iran's crackdown on protests in January that challenged the theocracy's 47-year rule.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "Israel is undermining this regime to give the Iranian people the opportunity to remove it." The Israeli military also said it had begun a "wide-scale wave of strikes" across Iran's capital Tehran.
Elsewhere, US President Donald Trump expressed anger with NATO's refusal to join his push to send warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump said, "I'm disappointed in NATO. Very disappointed. I'm disappointed in a couple of other countries, too. But they should be thankful that this group of people feels the way we do. Because if a country like Iran was allowed to have the power of a nuclear weapon, if we didn't stop them - I stopped them twice. I stopped him my first term, when I terminated the Iran nuclear deal, which was Barack Obama's deal. It was one of the, maybe the worst deal I've ever seen. If I didn't terminate the deal, unbelievable nuclear holocaust would have taken place."
"And then I did it a second time, when we hit them with the B-2 bombers, and we totally obliterated their potential nuclear weapon that they would have had in less than one month."
European leaders have also spoken out against the conflict over the last week. French President Emmanuel Macon said "faced with the ongoing war, France's position is purely defensive." British Prime Minister Kier Starmer also declined to get involved.
