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Larijani was 'key to Iran's reach in the Gulf region'

Mar 17, 2026
Reporting from Doha for FRANCE 24, Hoda Abdel-Hamid explains that Iranian security chief Ali Larijani "was key to Iran's reach to the Gulf region" adding that "the GCC and Iran were two parties deeply suspicious of each other, it took decades for them to get close to each other and Larijani played a big role in that". Ali Larijani was reported to have died in an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday.
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