The intelligence chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Majid Khademi, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Monday, Iranian state media reported, without sharing more details.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed that Israel had targeted Khademi.
“The Revolutionary Guards are shooting at civilians, and we are eliminating the leaders of the terrorists,” Katz said. “Iran’s leaders live with a sense of being targeted. We will continue to hunt them down one by one,” he added.
Khademi was among 25 people killed in a wave of US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran on Monday.
Iran also fired drones and missiles at targets in the Gulf and Israel. At least two people were killed in Israel’s Haifa in an Iranian missile strike on an apartment late Sunday.
Several senior Iranian security officials have been killed since the war began, among them security chief Ali Larijani, and the Guards’ commander-in-chief Mohammad Pakpour.
Analysts have pointed out that a decentralized command structure has enabled Iran’s regime to continue coordinating attacks, even when senior officials are killed. (DW)