In the attack, the Israeli army also killed an indefinite number of citizens. Among the victims are one of the leaders of the general staff of the armed forces, Mohamad Hosein Baqeri and the supreme commander of the revolutionary guard, Hossein Salamí.
He Fall this morning from Israel on Iranian soil He killed one of the leaders of the general staff of the armed forces, Mohamad Hosein Baqeriand the commander -in -chief of the revolutionary guard, Hossein Salamí. Iran immediately appointed its substitutes.
The death of other high military positions and various scientists and an indefinite number of citizens has also been confirmed.
Baqeri, Intelligence -Expert
After the Iranian supreme leader, Ali Jamese, Baqeri was the most powerful army in Iran. Degree in Engineering, with a doctorate in political geography and expert in military intelligence, he was head of the general staff of the armed forces of Iran since 28 June 2016, when he replaced Hassan Firouzabadi.
In the war between Iran and Iraq (1980-1988), he fought as part of the revolutionary guard and was also a deputy head of the general staff of intelligence and operations between 2002 and 2014. His position will be occupied by the greatest general after his murder Abdorrahim Musavíwho is also the army commander.
Salamí ordered the April 2024 operation, according to Tel Aviv
Salamí was appointed head of the revolutionary Guard in 2019 to replace Mohammad Ali Jafari, just after the President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced his withdrawal from the international nuclear agreement, recovered the sanctions against Iran and the revolutionary guard as “a terrorist organization”.
He was a mechanical engineering student in Tehran when the war with Iraq (1980-1988) broke out and in the same year from the beginning he joined the revolutionary guard, where he later rose to the head of his air force and was an attached commander.
After the United States killed Qassem Soleimani, head of the Kwadijen of the Revolutionary Guard, on January 3, 2020 in Baghdad, Salamí himself announced reprisals to American and Israeli: “Every action that the enemy takes against us will be answered with a mutual, decisive and sturdy blow, he said.
Tel Aviv is of the opinion that it was the one who ordered the operation of April 2024 in which Iran launched around 300 missiles and drones to Israel. The function of commander of the revolutionary guard will now be occupied by the Division General Mohammad Pakpur.
The other soldiers killed
Together with Baqeri and Salamí, the death of the Chief of the Air Force of the Elite Military Corps, the General Amir Ali Hajizadehgeneral Gholam Ali RashidResponsible for the important Khatam Ol-Anbiya air base.
Hajizadeh was responsible for the Missile and Drone program since October 2009 and Tel Aviv is of the opinion that he had a prominent role in the latest rake releases for Israel last year.
On the other hand, Rashid, born in 1953 in Dezful (west of Iran), was the commander of the central headquarters of Khatam al-Anbia (KCHG) since June 2016, so he was responsible for coordinating the conventional army of Iran and the body of the Islamic revolutionary guard.
Scientists
At least six Iranian nuclear scientists were also killed during the attacks, which as one of the objectives were the most important uranium enrichment installation in Iran, Natanz, which, according to the Tasnim Agency, had coupled with the revolutionary guard.
It’s about it Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, Fereydoun Abbasi, Abdulhamid Minouchehr, Ahmadreza Zolfaghari, Seyyed Amirhossein Faqhi and MotlabizadehAll linked to the powerful Iranian nuclear program.
Tehranchi (Tehran, 1965-2025) was one of the most recognized nuclear scientists in the country, a distinguished figure from the university environment and, according to the official press, played a fundamental role in the scientific future of Iran.
Abbasi (Ababán, 1958-2025) was a nuclear scientist who was director of the Iran Atomic Energy Organization between 2011 and 2013, but was also a parliamentarian and was part of the revolutionary guard.
Source: EITB

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