Reza Pahlavi has announced a new committee to lay the groundwork for a future truth commission in Iran and named a Nobel Peace Prize winner to lead it.

• Former Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi announced a truth commission for Iran.
• He named Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi to lead the committee.
• Israel launched new strikes in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and was also targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut.

The exiled son of Iran’s last shah announced a new committee on Monday to lay the groundwork for a future truth commission in Iran and named a Nobel Peace Prize winner to lead it.

US-based Reza Pahlavi, who wields influence among the diaspora, but holds no official position, said that the transitional justice committee would draft “regulations for a truth-finding commission and court”.

According to the former crown prince, the team would seek justice for “victims of injustice, torture and repression by the Islamic Republic”.

He wrote on X that Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi would lead the committee of “experienced Iranian experts spanning four different generations”.

He also named Dutch Iranian law professor Afshin Ellian, activist Iraj Mesdaghi and doctor Leila Bahmani as members.

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Pahlavi leads one of several opposition movements based outside of Iran.

His prominence grew after he encouraged protests in January against Iran’s clerical system, with some demonstrators calling for a return of the deposed monarchy.

Iran’s supreme leader since 1989, Ali Khamenei, was killed when the US and Israel launched air strikes on the Islamic Republic on 28 February.

His son, Mojtaba, was named his successor a week later.

Ebadi, a lawyer, former judge and the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, created the nonprofit Defenders of Human Rights Centre and lives in exile in London.

AFP reported on Tuesday that Israeli media reported that Israel targeted Iranian national security chief Ali Larijani in an overnight strike, though there was no immediate confirmation from Israeli officials.

But Larijani’s official social media profiles posted a handwritten note on Tuesday, shortly after Israel said it had killed him.

Tehran has not confirmed Larijani’s death, nor did the post address the claim.

Last week, a defiant Larijani made one of the most high-profile public appearances by an Iranian official since the 28 February strike that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials, marching in a mass rally in Tehran where he dismissed US-Israeli attacks as being “out of fear, out of desperation”.

Israel launched a “wide-scale wave of strikes” in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and was also targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut.

Airstrikes rained down on three neighbourhoods in Beirut early on Tuesday, Lebanese state media reported, as Lebanon said more than one million people had been displaced in two weeks of fighting.

Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on 2 March when Tehran-backed Hezbollah militants attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes.

Israel has responded with broad air raids on its northern neighbour and troop incursions into border areas.

“A series of raids and artillery shelling targeted southern towns at dawn,” Lebanon’s National News Agency said.

“Israeli warplanes carried out two airstrikes targeting the Kafaat and Haret Hreik areas” and another airstrike on a residential apartment building in the Doha Aramoun area, NNA added.

An Ethiopian woman was wounded in the strikes, it said, quoting the health ministry.

Israel confirmed it had carried out the attacks, saying it was targeting Hezbollah.

Israeli strikes have killed 886 people, including 67 women and 111 children, since the start of the fresh fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah, Lebanon’s health ministry said on Monday, adding that 2 141 others have been wounded.

Lebanese authorities said more than one million people have registered as displaced since 2 March, with more than 130 000 people staying in upwards of 600 collective shelters.

The Israeli military has issued sweeping evacuation warnings for southern Lebanon, extending more than 40km from its border.

Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned that displaced Lebanese should not return home “south of the Litani area until the safety of residents in the north (of Israel) is guaranteed”.