Iran Loses Top Commanders, Names Successors

(MENAFN- Kashmir Observer) Tehran : Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of Aerospace Force of the IRGC was confirmed to have been assassinated in the Israeli military strikes in Tehran in the early hours of Friday.

The attacks killed a number of military commanders, nuclear scientists and civilians.

The IRGC announced in a statement on Friday that“Brigadier General Hajizadeh was martyred in a terrorist strike by the Zionist regime on an IRGC center in the wee hours of Friday”.

“The late commander was a prominent and influential figure of the resistance front and a symbol of development, innovation and might in the defense and missile spheres”, the IRGC said.

Others confirmed killed include Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami, Commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters Major General Gholam Ali Rashid and at least six Iranian nuclear scientists.

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Iranian officials also report that Ali Shamkhani, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader, was seriously wounded.

Meanwhile Iran has quickly replaced slain commanders with successors.

Announcing the new appointments Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who also acts as Supreme Commander of the armed forces, appointed Seyyed Abdolrahim Mousavi as the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, following the assassination of Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri.

He named Mohammad Pakpour as commander of IRGC, succeeding Major General Hossein Salami.

Additionally, the Leader promoted Ali Shademani to the rank of brigadier general and named him to replace Major General Gholam Ali Rashid as the commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbia Central Military Headquarters.

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