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Iranian media says paramilitary Basij force senior commander killed in earlier Israeli strike

By AFP 24 June 2025, 3:53 pm Edit
Members of Iranian paramilitary forces (Basij) pull boxes symbolising Israeli coffins, during an anti-Israeli rally to show their solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people, in Tehran, January 10, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Members of Iranian paramilitary forces (Basij) pull boxes symbolising Israeli coffins, during an anti-Israeli rally to show their solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people, in Tehran, January 10, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

Iranian media reports that an Israeli strike the day before had killed a senior commander of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force, linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

“The commander of Basij counterintelligence protection forces was martyred in a Zionist regime attack,” the Fars news agency said, citing a statement from the IRGC.

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