Morning coverage continued reporting on the funerals of senior officials Ali Larijani and Gholamreza Soleimani, with state-aligned sources framing them as heroic martyrs while foreign sources analyzed the implications for Iran's leadership. By midday, foreign and exile media reported Israeli airstrikes killing Iran's intelligence minister Ismail Khatib and targeting the South Pars petrochemical facility in Asalouyeh. State-aligned sources emphasized Hezbollah's retaliatory drone attacks on Israeli positions in the Golan Heights. Evening reporting detailed Khatib's role as Iran's highest security official, with U.S. officials calling his death "good news" while state media highlighted Iranian missile and drone strikes on U.S. and Israeli targets in Iraq and Syria.
