Iran launches more than 100 drones in retaliation for Israeli strikes, IDF says
Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Effie Defrin said Friday morning in a statement that Iran had launched “over 100 UAVs toward Israel, and the IDF is working to intercept them.”
He said more than 200 Israeli air force fighter jets had struck over 100 targets across Iran, including the locations of top Iranian military officials, and that the strikes were ongoing.
Defrin confirmed the deaths of Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, a senior IRGC commander; and Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of the armed forces, in the strikes. The killings were previously reported by Iranian state media….
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Iranian news agency confirms deaths of military commanders, nuclear scientists
Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim News Agency confirmed the deaths of prominent military commanders and nuclear scientists in Israel’s strikes.
It reported that Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed, along with another senior IRGC commander, Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid.
The agency also reported the deaths of Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi and Fereydoon Abbasi, whom the agency identified as “two prominent Iranian nuclear scientists.”
Mehr News Agency Arabic, another semiofficial Iranian agency, reported that Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of the armed forces, was also killed in the strikes.
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