Ali Larijani, believed to be running Iran since the beginning of the war, is killed in a strike

Iranian authorities have confirmed the death of Ali Larijani, a top Iranian security official who was thought to be running the country since the beginning of the war. Larijani was a top security official and a hard-liner who had been appointed to advise Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on strategy in nuclear talks with the Trump administration. He traveled to Oman to meet with mediators just two weeks before the U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed Khamenei and started the war late last month. Larijani was born into one of Iran’s most famous political families but was ineligible to become supreme leader because he wasn't a Shiite cleric.