MOSCOW, March 18 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday condemned what it called "the murder" of Iran's leaders in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, a day after Iran's semi-official Fars news agency confirmed that Ali Larijani,

The US-Israeli strike also reportedly killed Gholamreza Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Basij forces, further intensifying the impact on Iran’s leadership structure.

Larijani served as an IRGC commander, state broadcaster chief, long‑time parliament speaker and later head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.

The confirmation of Ali Larijani’s death came after Israel announced it had eliminated Iran’s national security chief—considered the most senior figure after Ali Khamenei in the ongoing war

A 2006 Guardian interview with Iran’s slain security chief now reads as a grim warning of the conflict that killed him

Once viewed as an Iranian that Washington could deal with, Ali Larijani died as Tehran’s military overlord in command of its ferocious response to attack by the U.S. and Israel. Israel said Tuesday it killed Iran’s top national-security official in an airstrike,