00:00Israel claims that its military has killed Iranian security chief Ali Larijani in a strike.
00:06Tehran, however, has not confirmed whether he has been killed or injured.
00:11He was last seen in public on Friday, taking part in a Qudsday rally.
00:16Israel also claimed to have killed Gholam Reza Soleimani, the head of the Basij militia,
00:22a paramilitary force under Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,
00:26which is often deployed to suppress unrest inside the country.
00:30Iran has not responded to any of those claims.
00:33If confirmed, their deaths would rank among the most senior Iranian losses
00:38since Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed at the start of the war.
00:43The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran is in its third week,
00:47with strikes intensifying across Tehran, Lebanon and the Gulf region.
00:52Drones and rockets have been launched at the U.S. embassy in Iraq's capital Baghdad
00:57in the second such attack of the war.
01:00Meanwhile, the UAE has reopened its airspace
01:03after missile and drone threats from Iran forced it to close briefly.
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