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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commander Hossein Salami killed in Israeli strike, says Iranian state media
Head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami speaks during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the death of the late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran on May 15, 2025. (AFP)
Iranian state media confirms the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Hossein Salami in an Israeli strike.
“Major General Hossein Salami, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was martyred in the Israeli regime’s attack on the IRGC headquarters,” the local Tasnim news agency reports.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is one of the main power centers within the country’s theocracy. It also controls Iran’s arsenal of ballistic missiles.
In addition to Salami, Israel believes the chief of Iran’s military, Mohammad Bagheri, other members of the military’s top brass, and senior nuclear scientists were eliminated in the IDF’s opening strikes on Iran.
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