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Senior Iranian Official Ali Shamkhani Reportedly Gravely Wounded in Assassination Attempt Amid Escalating Tensions

By: Carl Schwartzbaum In a potentially seismic development amid spiraling conflict in the Middle East, Iran’s semi-official Nour News agency reported that Ali Shamkhani — one of the Islamic Republic’s most senior security architects and a close advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — was seriously wounded in what appears to be an assassination […]