Summary: * * * State Media Confirms Larijani Death It’s official: Iranian state media confirmed late Tuesday that Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, is dead, hours after Israel first announced he and another senior Iranian official were killed in overnight airstrikes “Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, has been martyred,” the Fars News Agency wrote on X, translated from Persian. “Martyr Ali Larijani, one of the country’s prominent and prudent officials, along with his son, one of his deputies, and a group of bodyguards, was targeted by American and Zionist regime fighter jets at his daughter’s home in the Pardis area and was martyred,” the news agency wrote in follow-up. Larijani was speaker of Iran’s parliament until 2020, is the second most senior Iranian official to be assassinated since Ayatollah Ali Khameini was killed on the first day of the war. One problem this potentially presents is that it will now by anything but clear what official external states can deal with, in terms of potential negotiations to wind down or end the war. Internationalization of Kamikaze Drone War over Gulf On Tuesday afternoon the WSJ is reporting on two trends which suggesting a creeping internationalization of the […]