Iran's top security chiefs killed, Top US counterterrorism official resigns

0:00Al-Jazeera Podcasts Iran confirms the death of its top security official on the commander of the internal security force. They both died in Israeli airstrikes. Two people are killed in Israel by Shrapnel from an intercepted Iranian rocket. Heavy Israeli airstrikes target Bayerut and parts of southern Lebanon. And the top U.S. counterterrorism official resigns accusing Israel of dragging Washington into the war. Iran has confirmed the death of two top officials killed by Israeli airstrikes on Tehran. It's one of the biggest blows to the Iranian leadership since the U.S. and Israel began attacking Iran two and a half weeks ago, starting a war that's turned the region into chaos. Well, Iranian state media announced that security chief Ali Larajani was killed. He'd been a central figure during the war, second only, to the Supreme Leader. Also killed. Golem res us Salimani, the commander of the internal security force.

1:03It's also known as the besiege. Both Salimani and Larajani were key to the violent crackdown on anti-government protests in January. Both the Israeli Prime Minister and the U.S. President have welcomed the news of their assassinations. In the past 24 hours, we knocked out two of the terrorist chieftains. The top terrorist chieftains of this tyranny are aircraft, are heading. The terror operatives on the grounds and the crossroads in the city squares. The leaders of God, I guess, one of the top person was they say a lot of people say their actual top was killed yesterday, along with somebody else. He was in charge of the killing of protesters. It's an evil group. Coming up on the take, how calls to hold the U.S. accountable for the strike on a children's school in Iran are growing from within? That's the take by Al Jazeera. Find it wherever you get your podcasts.