{"id":87537,"date":"2026-03-18T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/irans-intelligence-minister-killed-in-overnight-strike-israel-says-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:44:30","slug":"irans-intelligence-minister-killed-in-overnight-strike-israel-says-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/irans-intelligence-minister-killed-in-overnight-strike-israel-says-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s intelligence minister killed in overnight strike, Israel says | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel says Iran&#8217;s intelligence minister Esmail Khatib has been killed in an overnight strike.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Iran&#8217;s top security official <!--more--> Ali Larijani was also killed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF said Khatib&#8217;s Ministry of Intelligence played a key role in supporting the regime\u2019s &#8220;repression and terrorist activities&#8221;, and that he himself played a &#8220;significant role&#8221; in the &#8220;arrest and killing of protesters&#8221; during a recent crackdown on demonstrations in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His elimination joins dozens of other eliminations of senior commanders of the Iranian terrorist regime&#8230; and significantly degrades the regime\u2019s command and control structures,&#8221; the IDF added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has not yet commented on reports of Khatib&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Israel has launched a series of strikes on Lebanon&#8217;s capital Beirut, as it continues its offensive against Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Iran #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel says Iran&#8217;s intelligence minister Esmail Khatib has been killed in an overnight strike. It comes after Iran&#8217;s top security official<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}