Israel has claimed that it killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps chief Majid Khademi in an air strike carried out in Tehran on Sunday. Khademi is considered one of the three most senior figures in the organisation was appointed to his position several months ago after his predecessor was eliminated in Operation "Am Kalavi."
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz told reporters on Monday morning that Khademi was among the three most senior figures in the organisation and was directly responsible for attacks on Israeli civilians. He added that the death of Khademi was a severe blow to the intelligence and operational capabilities of the IRGC.
“I was informed by the Chief of Staff that the IDF foiled Majid Khadami, head of the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence organisation, in Tehran last night, one of those directly responsible for these war crimes and one of the three most senior figures in the organisation,” he said.
"The Revolutionary Guards are shooting at civilians, and we are eliminating the leaders of the terrorists," Katz declared, adding that targeted actions are having a heavy psychological effect on the leadership in Tehran. "Iran's leaders live with a sense of persecution. We will continue to hunt them down one by one," the Defence Minister added.
Katz said the IDF has severely damaged the steel infrastructure and petrochemical industry of the Islamic Republic. "I warned that if they continue to fire at civilians in Israel, we will damage and destroy the Iranian national infrastructure. We have severely damaged the steel infrastructure and the petrochemical industry, and today and every day, the continuation will come," the minister emphasised.
The IDF also claimed it killed another top IRGC officer in overnight strikes. Yazdan Mir, known by his alias Sardar Bagheri, who headed the IRGC Quds Force’s clandestine Unit 840, was also killed in Israeli attacks. Unit 840 has been implicated in kidnappings and assassinations of figures outside of Iran, including against Israelis.
