Iran’s top commander, nuclear scientists among killed

KABUL (Pajhwok): Iranian media reported on Friday that the commander of the country’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and a number of other military officials and nuclear scientists lost their lives in Israeli attacks.

IRNA news agency said: “The commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, was martyred in the attacks of the Zionist regime on Friday morning.”

It said some reports indicate that the commander of the Khatamul Anbiya (PBUH) headquarters, Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, nuclear scientist and president of the Islamic Azad University, Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, and member of parliament and nuclear scientist Fereydoun Abbasi, and a number of other military commanders, scholars and civilians lost their lives in these attacks on Tehran and a number of other cities in Iran.

Reports quote Israeli officials as saying they targeted Iranian nuclear facilities, ballistic missile production plants and military commanders on Friday morning.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a statement that Israel had “unleashed its wicked and bloody” hand in a crime against Iran and that it would receive “a bitter fate for itself”.

The UN Secretary-General expressed concern over Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and called for restraint from both sides.

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