Tehran: Iran lost yet another top leader on Monday, with Major General Majid Khademi, intelligence chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC), being killed in a US-Israeli attack on Tehran.
This was confirmed by the IRGC in a statement that was accessed by Iran’s local Press TV. The deceased officer served the organisation for nearly five decades, the IRGC said, as reported by India Today.
He played a vital role against infiltration by foreign forces, the IRGC added.
Maj Gen Khademi’s death comes at a crucial time when the US has threatened strikes against Iran’s power
facilities and bridges. The US-Israeli forces are relentlessly pounding Tehran and other parts of the country. At least 25 deaths have been reported in Iran over the last 24:hours.
An estimated 1,340 people have died is Iran since the start of the war.
Sources have revealed that the intelligence chief was killed in a targeted strike. This came barely a few days after the killing of the IRGC’s naval intelligence chief Behnam Rezaei.
The United States and Israel have been carrying out targeted strikes against Iran’s top political and military leadership since the start of the war. The country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed along with several members of his family on the first day of the war itself (February 28).
Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani and intelligence minister Esmail Khatib were killed in March. Among the others killed were IRGC chief Mohammad Pakpour, Basij Force commander Gholamreza Soleimani and defence minister Aziz Nasirzadeh.