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Iran’s judiciary confirms deaths of IRGC chief Pakpour, top security official Shamkhani
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Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Mohammad Pakpour, pictured in 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
Iran’s judiciary confirms that US and Israeli strikes killed the chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and another top security adviser.
The Guards’ commander, General Mohammad Pakpour, and Ali Shamkhani, the head of the national defense council, were “martyred” in yesterday’s attacks, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan online news portal reports.
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