Moscow, June 13 – The Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a key military unit of Iran, Hossein Salami, died following the Israeli attack on the Persian nation on the night of this Thursday to Friday, reports the Tasnim agency.
In addition to him, several high-ranking military personnel are reported to have been killed in the attack, including Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri and his deputy, Gholam Ali Rashid.
State news agencies also reported the deaths of two physicists: Fereydoun Abbasi, former director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, president of the Islamic Azad University.
Israel carried out an attack against Iran on the night from Thursday to Friday. Immediately after the attack, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that a state of emergency was declared in the Hebrew country.
The Israeli Home Front Command said it expects a significant attack from the east, with missiles that could reach the entire country.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that his country "has struck the heart of Iran's nuclear program." "We are focusing on Iran's main uranium enrichment facility at Natanz," he noted.
"We also targeted the top Iranian nuclear scientists working on the bomb, as well as the core of Iran's ballistic missile program," he added. (Text and photo: RT)