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U.S.-Israeli strikes connected Monday (April 6, 2026) killed Iran's Revolutionary Guards quality chief, who earlier this twelvemonth had been sanctioned by the United States for his relation successful suppressing anti-government protests.
Major General Majid Khademi, who, according to a connection by the Guards was killed successful an airstrike astatine dawn, was 1 of respective elder figures wrong the unit to beryllium killed truthful acold successful the war.
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Khademi spent overmuch of his vocation successful the quality apparatus of the Revolutionary Guards', the ideological service of the Islamic republic whose mandate is to support it from interior and outer threats.
He was promoted to beryllium main of the Guards' quality erstwhile his predecessor Mohammad Kazemi was killed past twelvemonth successful an airstrike successful Israel's 12-day warfare against Iran.
This meant Khademi was successful his relation during nationwide protests successful January which according to rights groups were suppressed by forces including the Revolutionary Guards successful a crackdown that near thousands dead.
That period the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Khademi, saying that nether his enactment the Guards' quality limb "has played an instrumental relation successful violently suppressing protests".
The Guards' quality branch, it added, "has underpinned the Iranian information forces' nationalist run of wide violence, arbitrary detentions, and intimidation aimed astatine crushing Iran's protestation moment".
Announcing Khademi's death, the Guards paid tribute to what the unit said was his "great, lasting and instructive contributions successful the fields of quality and security" successful the Islamic republic.
It said this had paved the mode to assistance Iran successful the years to travel face "foreign enemies and their sinister and evil plans to infiltrate and destabilise Iran's information and peace."
Since the commencement of the war, U.S.-Israeli airstrikes person killed Iran's ultimate person Ali Khamenei and a full echelon of the governmental and subject elite successful the Islamic republic successful targeted killings.
The Guards had already been deed earlier the sidesplitting of Khademi. Their commandant successful chief, Mohammad Pakpour, was killed connected the archetypal time of the warfare connected February 28 but past replaced by erstwhile interior curate Ahmad Vahidi.
The main spokesperson of the Guards, the caput of its naval subdivision and the caput of its Basij militia part person besides been killed.
But respective cardinal figures person survived and the Islamic republic has shown resilience successful rapidly replacing killed leaders and besides keeping up the warfare against the U.S. and Israel.
