Iranian state TV announced Thursday that the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps’ commander-in-chief, Gen. Hossein Salami, was killed in one of the airstrikes by Israel Defense Forces. 

Israel also eliminated Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, head of the IRGC’s Khatam al-Anbia headquarters, according to Iran. 

Further, Iranian state media confirms that senior nuclear scientists Fereydoun Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi were killed in Israel’s strikes, Reuters reported. Abbasi was former head of the Atomic Energy Organization.

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