An Iranian parliamentary member has alleged that Morteza Larijani, the son of slain security chief Ali Larijani, may have been involved in revealing his father's location the night of the Israeli airstrike that killed both men in March 2026, according to reporting from Iran International.
Parliament member Ismail Khatteri, a member of parliament's National Security Committee, told Iran International that information passed to him "suggests" that a phone conversation involving Morteza Larijani was identified on the night of the March 16-17 strike—thereby potentially exposing Ali Larijani's whereabouts to Israeli forces.
According to Iran International's reporting, Khatteri did not provide public details about the alleged phone conversation but indicated that identifying the call during the night of the strike pointed to the circumstances that may have enabled the targeting of Larijani.
The allegation, if substantiated, would represent an extraordinary family tragedy: the notion that one family member's actions, whether intentional or inadvertent, contributed to the death of another. Ali Larijani was killed along with Morteza and head of office Alireza Bayat in the airstrike on Tehran's Pardis district on March 17, 2026.
However, the Iranian news agency Mizan directly disputed the allegation, stating that the legal investigation into Larijani's death "does not support" the version of events Khatteri described. Mizan did not elaborate on what the legal investigation had concluded.
Ali Larijani, who was Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and described as one of the regime's most powerful figures after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's death in February 2026, was Israel's highest-profile target at that point in the ongoing 2026 Iran war.
Israeli officials claimed at the time that intelligence from Tehran residents, who provided information about Larijani's movements, helped enable the precision airstrike. This public Israeli account stands in contrast to Khatteri's allegation about Morteza's possible involvement.
The dispute between Khatteri's allegation and Mizan's denial raises questions about the nature of the legal investigation into Larijani's death and whether Iranian authorities have reached conclusions about how Israel identified and targeted the security chief.
The allegation also points to internal tensions within Iran's leadership and security apparatus as the regime deals with the loss of multiple senior officials and continues prosecuting the war against Israel and the United States.
