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Esmaeil Khatib, the Iranian intelligence minister, became the country’s latest high-ranking official to be targeted in the U.S.-Israeli military campaign.
Israel’s military said on Wednesday that it had killed Mr. Khatib in an overnight airstrike. The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, confirmed the killing in a social media post later in the day, calling it “a cowardly assassination.”
Mr. Khatib is the latest top Iranian official to be killed since the United States and Israel launched their joint attack last month. An airstrike killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the war.