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On Friday, Ali Larijani walked confidently at a rally of regime loyalists in central Tehran, his first public appearance during a war in which he was a known assassination target. “Brave people, brave officials, brave leaders. This combination cannot be defeated,” the senior Iranian official wrote on X. Four days later, he was dead Early Tuesday, Israeli intelligence located Larijani, along with other regime figures, at a hideout on the outskirts of Tehran and killed him in an airstrike. That same night, the commander of the Basij — a pro-regime volunteer militia — Gholamreza Soleimani, was also killed. Iranian civilians reported to Israel that he was hiding (snip) and