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Death of Iran’s Security Chief Risks Unleashing a New Cycle of Escalation
Iran confirmed the death of Ali Larijani, its Supreme National Security Council secretary, in an airstrike that Israel had announced a day earlier. Larijani’s killing removes a key interlocutor and ‘buffer’ between Iran’s pragmatic and hardline camps, raising the risk of immediate, broad retaliation and complicating nuclear diplomacy and crisis management in the region.
Assassination of Iran’s National Security Secretary Deepens Leadership Vacuum and Raises Risk of Rapid Escalation
Ali Larijani, Iran’s national security council secretary and former nuclear negotiator, was killed in an overnight strike that Israel says it conducted. His death creates a leadership and coordination gap in Tehran, strengthens hardline factions, and increases the risk of swift and wider Iranian retaliation that could destabilise the region and complicate nuclear diplomacy.
Why Iran Won’t Give Up Uranium Enrichment: Pride, Leverage and the Limits of Pressure
Iran views its uranium enrichment programme as a core element of national sovereignty and regime legitimacy, not a mere technical capability. Domestic politics, deterrence logic and a desire to retain leverage explain why Tehran resists U.S. pressure to abandon enrichment, even as higher enrichment levels have increased regional tensions and risked military confrontation.