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Major Generals Hossein Salami, Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, and Gholam Ali Rashid were the Iranian armed forces’ top three generals. Iran has vowed to avenge them.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander-in-Chief Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami speaks during a meeting with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, on Aug. 17, 2023. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/West Asia News Agency via Reuters
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WASHINGTON—Recent airstrikes by the State of Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran have eliminated the country’s top three military leaders, key architects of Iran’s alleged proxy warfare programs and efforts to construct a nuclear weapon that threatened Israel.
The strikes, conducted on the night of June 12 and 13, targeted Iranian facilities alleged to be producing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, as well as top Iranian scientific and military personnel, according to a video message from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, posted on social media.
