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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
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.
bibi stiamo aspettando il colpaccio mortale alla turchia a gaza non c’è più nulla.