The Israeli military’s overnight attack inside Iran killed Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Crops (IRGC) Commander Hossein Salami, according to multiple Iranian state media reports.

“Major General Hossein Salami, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was martyred in the Israeli regime’s attack on the IRGC headquarters,” the Tasnim news agency, associated with the IRGC, reported.

Israeli strikes also killed the senior IRGC commander Gholamali Rashid, along with at least two prominent nuclear scientists — Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi and Fereydoun Abbasi, according to Iranian state TV.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military targeted Iran’s nuclear scientists, ballistic missile sites and Natanz, one of the country’s top enrichment facilities.

“We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear weaponization program. We targeted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb. We also struck at the heart of Iran’s ballistic missile program,”........

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