Israel has killed Iran’s top military commander just four days after he was appointed.
Ali Shadmani was killed in a command centre in central Tehran, the IDF said, after a “a sudden opportunity” arose for an airstrike.
Shadmani, Iran’s ‘wartime chief of staff’ and aide to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was appointed to the position on Friday after Israel killed his predecessor in a military strike.
He joins a list of Iran’s top military brass to be wiped out by Israel since it launched its campaign on Friday, in an operation reminiscent of how the IDF targeted senior figures from Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of the armed forces, were killed in the first round of Israeli strikes on Friday.
It comes as Iran fired missiles at Israel overnight, apparently without striking any targets. Talks at the G7 meanwhile were cut short after Donald Trump was forced to return to Washington DC for crisis meetings on the Iran conflict.
Source: The Telegraph
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