The intelligence chief for Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has reportedly been killed by Israel amid growing conflict between the two countries.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday afternoon that Israel targeted IRGC intelligence chief Mohammad Kazemi in a strike.

"Moments ago, we also got the chief intelligence officer and his deputy in Tehran because we're now over the skies of Tehran," Netanyahu told Fox News's Bret Baier.

Iranian state media confirmed Kazemi and his deputy Hassan Mohaqiq were killed in a strike, the

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