Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was on Saturday killed after the United States and Israel launched the most ambitious attack on Iranian targets in decades.
Iranian State Television confirmed that Khamenei’s daughter, grandchild, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law were also killed in the strike.
The Israeli army said that Ali Shamkhani, a top advisor to Khamenei, and the head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Pakpour, were also killed in the strikes.
The Israel Defence Forces, IDF, claimed that their fighter jets had eliminated seven senior officials of the Iranian defence leadership.
In a post on X, the IDF shared a postcard featuring details of the officials eliminated in the attack.
Here is the list:
Aziz Nasirzadeh, Minister of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics
Mohammad Shirazi, Chief of Military Bureau of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Ali Samkhani, Supreme Leader’s Advisor for Security Affairs and Secretary of the Defense Council
Hossein Jabal Amelian, Chairman of the SPND
Mohammad Pakpour, Chief of the IRGC
Reza Mozafari-Nia, former chairman of SPND
Salah Asadi, Head of Intelligence of Khatem Alanbieh Command
Abdolrahim Mousavi, the Iranian Chief of Staff of the armed forces.
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