An Israeli airstrike killed Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, AP reported, citing state media.
He was a former top commander within Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Israel carried out strikes against Iran on Friday, targeting its nuclear and military sites, killing multiple military officials and scientists.
Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s operation struck at the ‘heart of Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme’, taking aim at the atomic facility in Natanz and nuclear scientists.
Before his death, Maj Gen Mohammad Bagheri was Iran’s top military officer.
He was born as Mohammad-Hossein Afshordi in Tehran, but there are conflicting reports about his birth year. The US Treasury Department says that he was born in 1960, while others mention the year as 1958.
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Also, Bagheri served as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Iran’s highest military position, since 2016.
A military intelligence expert, Bagheri joined the Revolutionary Guards in 1980 and fought in the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.
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