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#AliLarijani was central figure in #Iran regime for decades

Importance rose after #Israel 12-Day War in June 2025 & killing of Supreme Leader

Seen as pragmatist who could be involved in effort to end #IranWar

#Basij commander Soleimani led represssion of #IranProtests since July 2019

Iran has confirmed the deaths of two senior security officials, considered among the most powerful figures in the country, in overnight strikes: Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and General Gholamreza Soleimani, head of the Revolutionary Guard’s Basij force. It's a major blow to Iran’s complicated security apparatus. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell takes a look at how it works
#Iran #Basij #IRGC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40aoLdgmh4w

New Decapitation Strike in #Tehran: #Israel Says It Killed #Iran ’s #Basij Chief as Regional #War Deepens

https://www.thelevantfiles.org/2026/03/new-decapitation-strike-in-tehran.html

Israel confirms: Ali Larijani and Basij commander eliminated

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/03/17/idf-kills-basij-commander-gholam-reza-soleimani-tehran-strike/

Iran braces for internal unrest as US and Israeli attacks persist (March 14-16 updates)

An image posted by the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News shows exercises by Iran’s special crowd-control units, with a mounted…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #basij #breakingnews #Iran #IRGC #Israel #israeliran #OperationEpicFury #OperationLion’sRoar #usiran
https://www.newsbeep.com/438102/

Il Foglio RSS: Se la Biennale mette sullo stesso livello democrazie e regimi. Una lettera

Al direttore - Rispondendo su queste colonne alla proposta di Giuliano Ferrara di affiancare all’apertura del padiglione del regime russo un’iniziativa a favore della cultura del dissenso, il presidente della Biennale ha svelato un suo progetto per il prossimo anno (non questo, dovessero offendersi gli ospiti del suddetto padiglione): l’invito a cinque protagonisti di oggi sgraditi ai loro governi, rispettivamente di Stati Uniti (?), Israele (??), Cina, Russia, persino Ue (???). Dissenso represso e incarcerato? Sarebbe interessante sapere quali scrittori e artisti della democrazia di Israele sgraditi al governo siano imbavagliati nel loro Paese: forse David Grossman, o Edgar Keret, o Yuval Abraham e Rachel Szor, coautori di un documentario, “No Other Land”, una delle più potenti opere critiche nei confronti della dirigenza di Israele? Certamente il riferimento non può valere per i libri dello scrittore palestinese antisionista Edward Said, presenti in tutte le librerie di Tel Aviv e assenti in quelle dei paesi islamici. Mistero. In attesa di un suo scioglimento attendo anche il cortese invito ad Azar Nafisi, intellettuale iraniana in esilio che non può leggere con le sue studentesse perseguitate dai pasdaran Lolita a Teheran.
Pierluigi Battista

If the Biennale puts democracies and regimes on the same level. A letter.

To the Editor – Responding in these columns to Giuliano Ferrara’s proposal to accompany the opening of the Russian regime pavilion with an initiative in favor of the culture of dissent, the Biennale’s president revealed a project for next year (not this one, to avoid offending the guests of the aforementioned pavilion): the invitation to five protagonists of today, unwelcome by their governments – the United States (?), Israel (??), China, Russia, even the EU (???). Suppressed and imprisoned dissent? It would be interesting to know which writers and artists of Israel’s democracy, unwelcome by the government, are gagged in their own country: perhaps David Grossman, or Edgar Keret, or Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, co-authors of a documentary, “No Other Land”, one of the most powerful critical works against the leadership of Israel? Certainly the reference does not apply to the books of the Palestinian anti-Zionist writer Edward Said, present in all Tel Aviv bookstores and absent in those of Islamic countries. Mystery. While awaiting his clarification, I also await a courteous invitation to Azar Nafisi, an Iranian intellectual in exile who cannot read with her persecuted students, harassed by the Basij in Tehran.

Pierluigi Battista

#Biennale #GiulianoFerrara’s #Russian #theUnitedStates #Israel #China #Russia #DavidGrossman #EdgarKeret #YuvalAbraham #RachelSzor #NoOtherLand #Palestinian #anti-Zionist #EdwardSaid #TelAviv #Islamic #AzarNafisi #Iranian #Basij #Tehran #PierluigiBattista

https://www.ilfoglio.it/cultura/2026/03/14/news/se-la-biennale-mette-sullo-stesso-livello-democrazie-e-regimi-una-lettera-8785858/