The Iranian military’s new head of emergency command was killed in an Israeli Air Force strike only four days after his predecessor was killed in the initial hours of Israel’s strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program.
June 17 Israel claimed Tuesday it had killed Iran’s highest-ranking military chief after just days in the job in an airstrike by Israeli warplanes.
„Ali Shadmani, Iran’s senior-most military official and Khamenei’s closest military adviser, was killed in an Israeli Air Force strike in central Tehran, following precise intelligence“, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Shadmani was appointed as the new head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Emergency Command to replace Gholam Ali Rashid in the hours after Rashid was among five of Iran’s most senior military commanders killed in the initial phase of Israel’s surprise attack early Friday.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces.
The development came as both sides continued to trade deadly attacks into a fifth day — Israel leveraging its stranglehold on Iranian airspace to ramp up its airborne assault on key military and nuclear targets while Iran launched 30 ballistic missiles with blasts reported in northern Israel.
Israel’s health ministry said another 154 people had been injured overnight, with 149 admitted to hospital in a moderate condition or with only minor injuries.
However, Israel said there had been noticeably fewer missiles incoming than on previous days.
Two dozen people in Israel have been killed since Friday, mainly in missile strikes on residential districts in the center and north of the country, while Iran’s Health Ministry says Israel’s attacks have killed 224 people and injured more than 1,200, mostly in Tehran.
