Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has lashed out at Israel after it claimed to have killed Iran’s national security chief Ali Larijani, denouncing its targeting of Tehran’s leaders as “illegal”, Al Jazeera reports.

“Israel’s political assassinations, especially those targeting Iranian statesmen and politicians, are truly illegal activities outside the normal laws of war,” Fidan has told a news conference.

Larijani’s death has not been confirmed by Iran.