During Saturday’s attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran, the Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Abdolrahi Mousavi, was also killed. This was announced on Sunday by the state television quoted by the AFP agency, writes TASR.
Among the victims of the attacks are, according to Iranian television also Minister of Defense Aziz Násirzáde, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Mohammad Pakpúr and advisor to the supreme leader and secretary of the Supreme Council of Defense Ali Šamchání. According to the state news agency IRNA, they were killed “during a meeting of the Defense Council”. The broadcaster added that the names of the other victims would be released later.
Iran also confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who headed the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1989, on Sunday night. He was elected to the post after the death of the founder of the regime, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. and during his almost 37 years of rule, he consolidated the power of the spiritual leadership over the country’s political and security apparatus.
He had Khamenei as the supreme leader the final word on matters of foreign and security policy, was supreme commander of the armed forces a had influence on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, which play a key role in both Iran’s military and economic systems. His death opens the question of succession, which should be decided as soon as possible.
