TEHRAN – Major General Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), was assassinated on an Israeli strike that targeted his apartment early on Friday, according to a report from Tasnim Newsletter.
Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, Commander of Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Headquarters. Feredun Abbasi, an Iranian nuclear scientist and former nuclear chief. Along with another well-known nuclear scientist called Mohammad Medi Tehran, he was also targeted in separate attacks on Tehran’s housing.
There is footage showing several civilians losing their lives as well, showing the bodies of their mother and her child being trapped under the tiled rub. Aid workers on the ground said they hope tolls for victims rise.
Shortly after hearing the explosion in Tehran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had launched a “massive strike” against Iran and vowed that such attacks would continue “if necessary.”