Israel says it killed two top Iranian commanders in targeted strike

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(NPR) Israel's defense minister said Tuesday that Israel's military carried out a targeted strike in Tehran that killed Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, one of the Iranian regime's top decision-making bodies, and Gholamreza Soleimani, who it said was a top commander of Iran's Basij forces— a paramilitary group linked to the Revolutionary Guard that Iranian authorities have used to enforce internal security.

The Israeli military said Soleimani oversaw Basij units that played a central role in crackdowns on recent protests, and described his killing as a "significant blow" to Iran's security command structure.

European leaders, meanwhile, again rejected President Trump's demand for naval assistance to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with leaders in the U.K., Germany, Spain and Italy all signaling Monday they would not send ships to the strategic waterway.

The refusal came as the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. issued a joint statement warning about escalating violence between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon and urged immediate de-escalation.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/17/nx-s1-5750253/israel-kills-two-top-iranian-commanders

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1. The Iranian military leadership is going to be taken out

Then what?

No country will ever trust us again after the way Trump, Witkoff and Rubio stalled negotiations to give the US military time to strike. Or the way that the U.S. surprise attacked Venezuela. Trump is mad that allies won't help us when he has been threatening to seize Greenland for over a year and has been openly supporting Russia against Europe. The endless lies and breaking of diplomatic norms are the kinds of things you can do once or twice, but eventually the rest of the world will respond accordingly.

Trump thinks that because his MAGA loyalists will ignore his constant lying then everyone else will ignore his constant lying. That is not how it works.