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 Defense 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.
Donald Trump imposed a Tuesday deadline for Iran to allow access to the Strait of Hormuz or endure “hell”, asserting that the US will target Iranian power stations and bridges. Iran has stated it will retaliate “in kind” against any assaults on its infrastructure, with high-ranking officials denouncing the US president’s statements as “incitement to war crimes”.
