Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami was killed within the large-scale strikes launched by Israel on Tehran early Friday.
Iran’s Islamic Republic Information Company (IRNA) reported that Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Main Common Hossein Salami was “assassinated in an Israeli strike in Tehran”.
Senior IRGC commander Gholamali Rashid, and not less than two nuclear officers – Fereydoun Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi – have been additionally killed within the assaults.
Israel launched a large-scale strike in Tehran, attacking not less than six army bases across the metropolis.
“In what seems to be focused assassinations”, Israel attacked areas together with Parchin, and residential houses at two extremely safe complexes for army commanders and a number of residential buildings round Tehran, 4 senior Iranian officers informed the New York Instances.
A senior Israeli official informed Iran Worldwide that leaders’ houses and never civilians have been focused in airstrikes in Tehran.
“Houses of senior army and political officers have been focused in Israeli airstrikes in Tehran,” the Israeli official was quoted as saying. “Civilians aren’t the supposed targets,” the official added.
Calling the offensive “Rising Lion,” Israel mentioned it additionally focused Iranian commanders and missile factories, and declared a state of emergency in anticipation of retaliatory missile and drone strikes by Tehran.
“Israel focused Iranian scientists engaged on a nuclear bomb, its ballistic missile program and its Natanz uranium enrichment facility, in an operation that will proceed for days,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned.
