The Iranian judiciary's news agency, Mizan, on Tuesday confirmed the death of Gen Gholam Reza Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's all-volunteer Basij force. Earlier in the day, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said that Soleimani and Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council were "eliminated last night". Both men were key to Iran's violent crackdown on protests in January that challenged the theocracy's 47-year rule. The killings would strip Iran of important leaders during a war that presents that greatest test for the Islamic Republic in recent decades. Iran has not confirmed or denied the reported killing of Larijani, considered one of the most powerful figures in the country since Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an airstrike on the first day of the war. Larijani, a former parliamentary speaker and senior policy adviser, advised the late Khamenei on strategy in nuclear talks with the Trump administration. He was ...