Chief of the General Staff of Iran and the commander of the IRGC killed in an Israeli strike

As a result of Israeli airstrikes on various regions of Iran, the Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Mohammad Bagheri, and the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, were killed.

This is reported by TUT.AZ with reference to Iranian media.

The IRGC, in turn, issued an official statement confirming the tragic death of its commander-in-chief.

In addition, Ali Shamkhani, an advisor to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyed Ali Khamenei, was seriously wounded as a result of the Israeli strike.

At the same time, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereidoun Abbasi, and the president of the Islamic Azad University, Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, were killed as a result of large-scale airstrikes.

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The Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Mohammad Bagheri, was presumably killed in an Israeli strike on Iran.

This was reported by the authoritative Reuters agency, citing an informed source.

It is noted that other high-ranking members of the General Staff, as well as leading nuclear scientists, may also have been killed as a result of Israel's rapid attack.

In turn, the Iranian publication SNN does not rule out that the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, was killed as a result of the strikes. The Tasnim agency confirmed the information about his death, but there have been no official statements from the Iranian government yet.