Within the early hours of this morning, Israel launched focused assaults in opposition to Iran, placing greater than 100 targets, together with the hideouts of senior operatives within the navy’s management.
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The strikes eradicated a number of senior navy commanders and 6 high nuclear scientists.
Who have been they – and what can we find out about them?
Mohammad Hossein Bagheri
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Mohammad Hossein Bagheri
Bagheri was chief of employees of the armed forces of the Iranian regime and the very best rating navy officer in Iran.
He was second-highest commander after the nation’s supreme chief.
His involvement within the navy dated again to the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Based on The Instances of Israel, Bagheri was reportedly one of many college students who stormed the US embassy in Tehran that yr
Hossein Salami
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IRGC Commander-in-Chief Main Basic Hossein Salami. Pic: WANA/Reuters
Salami was commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran’s main navy power.
He had a historical past of threatening the US and Israel.
Salami beforehand warned Iran would “open the gates of hell” if attacked by one other nation.
He joined the Revolutionary Guards throughout the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Salami had been sanctioned by the UN Safety Council and the USA because the 2000s for his involvement within the nation’s nuclear and navy programmes.
In a 2016 speech, he mentioned there was “fertile ground” for the “annihilation, the wiping out, and the collapse of the Zionist regime”.
Gholam-Ali Rashid
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Gholam-Ali Rashid
Rashid was head of the IRGC’s Khatam al Anbia headquarters (Emergency Command).
He beforehand served as deputy chief of employees of the Iranian Armed Forces, and fought for Iran throughout the Eighties conflict with Iraq.
Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani
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Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, pictured in 2012. Pic: AP
Abbasi was a nuclear scientist and head of Iran’s Atomic Power Organisation from 2011 to 2013.
A hardliner, Abbasi was a member of parliament from 2020 to 2024.
Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi
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Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi. Pic: Tasnim Information Company/Wiki Commons
Tehranchi was additionally a nuclear scientist – and a theoretical physicist and president of the Islamic Azad College in Tehran.
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The Israeli strikes focused Iran’s nuclear services, ballistic missile factories and navy commanders to forestall Tehran from creating an atomic weapon.
4 different scientists killed within the strikes have been Abdolhamid Manouchehr, Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari, Amirhossein Feghi and Motalibizadeh.
