Posted on 06/12/25
| News Source: JPost
Iranian television reported early Friday morning that the Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Hossein Salami, was eliminated in an Israeli strike.
“He was killed in a strike by the Zionist regime,” said the Iranian Tasnim news agency.
According to unconfirmed reports, Fereydoon Abbasi—former head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization—was also eliminated. Abbasi, a nuclear physicist, survived an assassination attempt 15 years ago that was attributed to Israel.
In addition, Iranian sources reported that Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, president of the Islamic Azad University, was also eliminated.
Meanwhile, the Iranian news agency Nour News reported that Ali Shamkhani, senior advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and former Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.
Khamenei himself, according to sources quoted by the Reuters news agency, is alive and receiving updates on the Israeli strikes.