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Aide-de-camp to hypothetical Iranian supreme leader killed, Israel says
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Defense Minister Israel Katz says the military secretary to Iran’s supreme leader — who was appointed last week despite the supreme leader role being vacant — was killed in an Israeli strike.
During an assessment with the IDF’s top brass, Katz was updated that “Abolghasem Babaeian, the new head of the military bureau of the supreme leader, who had been appointed only a few days ago after his predecessor was eliminated in the opening strike, was also eliminated,” his office says.
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