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Iranian state media confirms the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Hossein Salami in an Israeli strike.

Axar.az, citing Reuters, reports that Major General Hossein Salami, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was martyred in the Israeli regime’s attack on the IRGC headquarters, the local Tasnim news agency reports.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is one of the main power centers within the country’s theocracy. It also controls Iran’s arsenal of ballistic missiles.

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Israel says it killed Mohammad Bagheri, Iran's armed forces chief of staff, along with senior nuclear scientists in ‘targeted strikes', AFP reported.

"It is likely that the Iranian chief of staff and senior nuclear scientists were eliminated in the initial strike," the update said, citing an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.

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Senior IRGC commander Gholamali Rashid, along with at least two nuclear officials, Fereydoun Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, were also killed in the attacks.