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Israel killed Brigadier General Majid Khademi, head of the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran, in an airstrike over Tehran on Monday, as confirmed by the elite Iranian body itself.
The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, announced the elimination before Tehran officially recognized it, describing Khademi as "one of the three senior leaders of the organization."
The Revolutionary Guard issued a statement through the Tasnim agency, noting that "the distinguished and respected head of the Revolutionary Guard Intelligence Organization has attained the high honor of martyrdom."
According to the agency EFE, Iranian media described the attack as a "terrorist attack carried out by the American-Zionist enemy."
Khademi had been appointed to the position in June 2025, following the death of his predecessor Mohammad Kazemi, who was assassinated along with his deputy Hassan Mohaqeq in an Israeli attack on their headquarters in Tehran. He spent decades in intelligence and counterintelligence roles within the Iranian security apparatus before assuming the leadership.
His elimination adds to a long list of high-ranking officials of the Iranian regime who have been eliminated since the onset of the open war between Iran, Israel, and the United States on February 28, 2026, marked by coordinated attacks that targeted over 1,000 Iranian sites, including nuclear facilities.
In the early days of the conflict, the supreme leader Ali Khamenei himself fell, Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guard, General Mohammad Pakpur, and the chief of staff of the armed forces, General Abdorrahim Musaví.
In the following weeks, the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani; the Minister of Intelligence, Esmail Khatib; the head of the Basij, Gholamreza Soleimani; and the spokesperson for the Revolutionary Guard, Ali Mohamad Naini, were eliminated.
This campaign of systematic decapitation by the regime has as its closest precedent the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard, who was eliminated on January 3, 2020 by a U.S. drone at Baghdad airport by order of then-President Donald Trump.
The death of Khademi comes at a time of heightened tension: Trump threatened on Sunday to unleash "hell" on Iran on Tuesday, April 8, if the regime does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which has been closed since March 4, 2026, setting a deadline of 8 PM Eastern Time on that day.
The president of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, dismissed the threats as "reckless" and warned that "with war crimes, they will gain nothing" and that "the only real solution is to respect the rights of the Iranian people and put an end to this dangerous game."
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