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Iranian media on June 25 shared the names of 30 senior generals who were killed in the recent eleven-day war with Israel.
Israel started the war on June 13, stating that its goal was to cripple Iran’s nuclear program. A ceasefire was suddenly announced on June 24, just two days after the United States joined the war by attacking three key nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic.
Around a third of the slain generals were killed in Israel’s opening strike, and most of the vast majority of them were members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The generals were identified as:
- Lt. Gen. Hossein Salami – IRGC Commander-in-Chief;
- Lt. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri – Chief of General Staff;
- Lt. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid – Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters Commander;
- Brig. Gen. Mehdi Rabbani – Deputy Chief of General Staff for Operations;
- Maj. Gen. Ali Shadmani – Second Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters Commander;
- Maj. Gen. Gholamreza Mehrabi – Deputy Head of Military Intelligence;
- Maj. Gen. Mohammad Kazemi – Head of IRGC Intelligence Organization;
- Maj. Gen. Mohsen Bagheri – Deputy Head, IRGC Intelligence;
- Brig. Gen. Hassan Mohakek – Deputy Head, IRGC Intelligence;
- Maj. Gen. Mohammad Jafar Asadi – Deputy Inspector General, Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters;
- Maj. Gen. Mohammad Reza Nasir Bagban – IRGC intelligence officer;
- Brig. Gen. Masoud Shanaei – Chief of Staff to the IRGC Commander;
- Maj. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh – IRGC Aerospace Force Commander;
- Brig. Gen. Amir Purjodaki – Deputy Cmdr, IRGC Aerospace;
- Brig. Gen. Khosro Hassani – Deputy Intelligence, IRGC Aerospace;
- Brig. Gen. Davoud Sheikhian – IRGC Air Defense Commander;
- Brig. Gen. Mohammad Baqer Taherpour – IRGC Drone Unit Commander;
- Brig. Gen. Mansour Safarpour – IRGC Aerospace Force Commander, Tehran;
- Brig. Gen. Masoud Tayeb – IRGC Aerospace Force;
- Brig. Gen. Javad Jarsara – IRGC Aerospace Force;
- Brig. Gen. Mohammad Said Izadi – Head of Palestine Desk, Quds Force;
- Brig. Gen. Behnam Shahriari – Commander of Unit 190, Quds Force;
- Maj. Gen. Amir Mozaffarnia – Head of Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND);
- Brig. Gen. Mohammad Taghi Yousefvand – Basij Intelligence Chief;
- Gen. Meysam Rizvanpour – Deputy Commander, Basij;
- Brig. Gen. Seyed Mojtaba Moeinpour – IRGC Chief of Staff, Alborz;
- Brig. Gen. Mojtaba Karami – IRGC Deputy Commander, Alborz;
- Brig. Gen. Akbar Enayati – IRGC Deputy Cmdr for Social Affairs, Alborz;
- Gen. Alireza Lotfi – Chief of Police Intelligence Organization (SAFA);
- Brig. Gen. Abbas Nouri – Deputy Logistics Commander, Southwest Ground Forces Headquarters.
The targeted killings were not limited to military commanders, some 17 of Iran’s top nuclear scientists were also assassinated by Israel during the war, according to Hebrew media. Some were killed along with their entire families, likely to intimidate others.
The Israeli Defense Forces’ Military Intelligence Directorate, also known as Aman, and the Mossad spy agency were behind most of these killings.
The assassination campaign dealt a blow to the Iranian command and control chain in the first days of the war. While the Islamic Republic recovered later, there is no denying that the killings exposed serious problems within Iran’s security apparatus.
Despite the overwhelming success of the campaign, at least two senior figures survived: Brig. Gen Esmail Qaani, commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, and Ali Shamkhani, a close advisor of the Supreme Leader of Iran.
Iran took drastic security measures later in the war, including restricting traffic, limiting access to the internet and mobilizing the Basij paramilitary force. As a result, more than 700 people suspected of operating on behalf of Israeli intelligence were arrested. Still, the Islamic Republic will have to address the root causes of its security problems if it wants to prevent more assassinations.
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this is israel’s biggest success in this war. using spies to reveal positions of generals. but irgc command structure proved very resilient, decentralised and easily replaceable. iran continued to hammer israel with 30 generals down until israel wanted a ceasefire. that is very impressive
i’m not sure hasbarat, 30 generals killed is terrible. at the top of the list lt. general is a 3 star, maj. general is a 2 star and brig. general is a 1 star. the israelis killed the top guys and their chosen successors. there was probably a lot of military secret knowledge that got lost. also who will ever want to work for iran’s nuclear program again when they kill your wife and kids along with you?
…”also who will ever want to work for iran’s nuclear program again when they kill your wife and kids along with you?” to what you just said. what does that say about i$rael and it’s patron?… imagine what world we’d be living in now if the u.$. government didn’t force it’s taxpayers to spend $4 billion a year on it (or it’s equivalent in depreciated terms) the past 60 years???
you think the hebrews are bad, you should see how much the american taxpayer is forced to fund worthless black and muslim parasites.
which para$ites are you referring to?… the one passport carrying pox americana variety on welfare losing their homes and their jobs to the dual citizen h1-b visa since 3 buildings 2 planes?… or the ones that were imported post 9/11 who’s parents many of which were tortured and murdered starting with afghanistan and iraq with their introduction to “the new north american neighborhood” that started with a formal “education” at guantanamo.
…might as well include every other race that is being replaced as well… think of the one passport carrying non multilingual american as the 21st century version of the “native american”! but unlike the 19th century native american at least the 21st century american has a choice they don’t feel they need to use -so they deserve everything they are getting!…
having said what you just “said”… what a shameful indictment on the iranian security services for not protecting them better, and knowing or controlling what comes through it’s airports from abroad?… rinse and repeat that for the russian federation as well.
the biggest spy is fake iranian president pezeshkian !!
indeed, an alleged freemason, allegedly installed instead of his allegedly assassinated predecessor.
it is the duty of iran to hunt down any israeli soldier with any rank in retaliation. else the blood of these generals will spoiled senseless.
you need to take the terror back in their hearts. they never should dear such heinous actions again.
so iran: show them who the real lion is. last i saw from israel was a perverted kitty, thinkin it’s a lion. it raises just to cry for help.
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iran has been totally humiliated by the allies…heheheh
nice score, the rest are mossad agents. let’s make persia great again.
don’t hold your breath—throughout history, whenever drastic events occur, like what happened in iran, regimes often act out of fear or seize the moment to eliminate rivals. in those instances, the overwhelming majority of people rounded up are innocent. i strongly suspect many innocent iranian civilians are being tortured, killed, and raped—and then blamed for the security failures and corruption of the iranian leadership itself.
you describe israel with “tortured, killed, and raped”.
the government of iran came to life through revolution of people. it is the people.
the gouvernement of israel was bought by sinister zionists and came to life through war and killing people with ressources of europe and usa.
israel can’t stand a day without the tremendous taxes the zionist squeezes out of hard working westeners.
torture rape and murder are the stock in trade of the jooz.
israel executes 50 to 100 civilians a day but you come over and speculate about how much you might care about human rights in iran?
bibi stiamo aspettando il colpaccio mortale alla turchia a gaza non c’è più nulla.
zealots and pious men born out of peace and complacency aren’t the ones israel should be worried about. the people who survive all this and emerge as cynics and mavericks united only only by their loathing of israel are the ones israel will have the most trouble with
probably iranian disinformation but as an example soviet union lost a couple of hundred generals in the first few months of the german invasion of 41 but their replacements were a new younger generation of better generals.
find the analogy. that means it it the same tactics and the same inhuman ruler who unleashed war and destruction in zivilists. you know, the bignoses…
this ceasefire may stand for awhile despite the media rhetoric . it may not be possible to steal control of irans oil and gas reserves , but the mafia cult wants it . israel is re-arming in this pause . no deal can be trusted by irianians . because zionist neo cons never keep agreements . hope for real end of conflict is little .
they want to force a rothchild central bank system on iran, same as they did with libya, iraq, likely syria now and want that on iran too. without control over your finances/money you are nothing but a slave resp slave nation.
zionist always survived on assasination of opponent bcuz they are coward who cannot fight a powerfull force face to face . and zionist can easily boged down if nation like iran fight back with force
this is what the jooz do – they murder people. they have been doing it for thousands of years. they have been poisoning the wells for thousands of years.
yes they are like cockroaches or other vermin. it brings only harm & demise. therefore it is important to make everybody know about them, + then mark these pest as satanic scum. never grand these anti-human, godless, satanic scum any rights in your country, but hunt them down as top-criminals, global terrorists,…
…mass-poisoners, children-murderers & enemies of man & god alike. forbid them completely. they are no religion nor innocent sect but a satanic death cult of hooknosed vermin & demons from hell !
they should also list the citizens and families wone and children that were murdered by the israelis, americans, uk and germany who supported the israelis to carry out these illegal actions.
too many greasy sell out iranians. i wonder if they’re really enjoying this mossad cia cash they took to frig their countrymen.
all around the world sleazeballs who take baby killer cash.
yes and no. iran creates this problem itself. contrary to for example ns-germany, iran allows tons of jooz to like in iran. so they themselves create & increase the problems they have & help israel to easily infiltrate them. iran (apart from israel) is the country in middle east where the most jooish creatures live.didn t you know that ?
i tell you: only with strict anti-jooish laws, rules & enforcement of these laws & rules one can de-joodify a country. and i feel that even ns-germany was still much much too soft with these hooknosed scum ! there were lots of spies and collaborateurs in ns military staff and elsewhere in the system. and hitler later regreted he dint do like stalin did. resp. killing all high military command and replace it with 100% loyal guys.
another big mistake was to make deal ( see the: havaara treaty ) with the jooz (in this case th so-called zionists) and allowing them to run around freely in germany, everything under the pretext they just want to get jooz out, so that later the state of israel will have enough jooz to settle there. no, he (adolf) should have never made any deals with that scum, but just arrest all of them and get rid of them like stalin did with his enemies.
correction: iran allows tons of jooz to live in iran.
because iran is not illiterate like the fascists. iran has human rights and don’t judge just by ethnic. and that’s why iran us a great nation.