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It's Wednesday, March 18th, 2006.

From ARC media, I'm Deborah Pardais, and this is ARC News Daily.

In the past 24 hours, we knocked out two of the terrorist chieftains, the top terrorist chieftains of this tyranny.

Israeli airstrikes killed two of Iran's most senior remaining officials overnight Tuesday.

It was the latest attack in an effort to decapitate the regime, according to a statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Air Force targeted Iran's national security chief Ali Laranjani and Basij commander Gala Merazza Salamani in two separate strikes.

The Basij is a paramilitary force used by the regime to suppress dissent.

The strikes also took out the group's deputy

commander and other senior officials. Iran International, a London-based Iranian opposition outlet,

reported that as many as 300 besiege members may have been killed. Later on Tuesday,

the IDF struck besieged soldiers at more than 10 checkpoints and other positions

in Tehran.

The operation is the most significant blow to the regime's leadership since the start of the war

and the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamani, along with dozens of top military commanders

in Tehran.

Ali Lali Lali Jani, he was the de facto leader of this Iranian war regime.

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