Iran has intensified attacks targeting U.S. assets in the Middle East and Israel in apparent retaliation against the killing of Iran's security chief Ali Larijani.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s top security official and the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s Basij militia were both killed in overnight strikes in a blow to the country’s leadership, Israel’s defense minister said Tuesday, while Tehran defiantly fired new salvos of missiles and drones at its Gulf Arab neighbors and Israel.

Israel said it killed Iranian security chief Ali Larijani and Basij paramilitary force commander Gholamreza Soleimani in airstrikes overnight.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that he demanded several countries send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, as Iranian strikes continued on Gulf countries.

Initial findings by an internal U.N. inquiry suggest Israeli tank fire hit a U.N. position in southern Lebanon on March 6, wounding Ghanaian peacekeepers,

Israeli officials told U.S. counterparts they hope for an uprising even though it would lead to a massacre, according to a State Department cable reviewed by The Post.