Iranian leaders and scholars who were killed in Israeli strikes

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Israel has killed many major generals and scientists in Iran in a large -scale destructive attack that prompted the Middle East to a new war.

Major General Mohamed Bajiri

As the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Bakhri was the largest military commander in the country.

He was born in 1960 and participated in the seizure of the American embassy as a university student in 1979 and joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during the Iran-Iraq war, According to Washington Institute for Thought Tank in the Near East Policy.

After a long profession in military intelligence, it was extracted from the shadows by the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khawni, and took over the general staff of the armed forces in 2016. He had sanctions imposed by the United States in 2019 as one of the “non -backward officials of the Iranian leader.”

Major General Hussein Salami

Salami, 65, was the commander of the commander of IRGC, the main military force of Iran, since 2019. He published a fierce speech regularly against Israel and the United States, saying last month Iran, “Gates of Hell” will open if it attacked.

Salami joined the guard in 1980, eventually his air force. It was placed under penalties before and In 2006 and the United States in 2007 to participate in the Iranian nuclear program.

He became the deputy leader in 2009 and was high to the leader after a decade. After an IRGC drone was killed in 2020, Salami threatened revenge and the missiles quickly fired in two bases of the United States forces in Iraq.

Last year, Salami said that the first direct blow to Israel had created a “new equation” in the region.

Major General Amir on a barn

As the commander of the IRGC Air Force, he supervised the Iranian ballistic missile program, according to the US Treasury. It was approved by the European Union for nuclear spread in 2012.

Washington Hazzadeh imposed In 2019, he accused him of responsibility for shooting down an American drone. Later that year, he said, “Everyone should know that all American bases” are 2000 km from Iran’s border “falling within our missiles,” according to Tasnim News Agency.

Hazzadeh, born in 1962, signed IRGC at the outbreak of the Iran and Iraq war in 1980. Israeli officials said he was behind the escalation of the drone program in Iran. The guards said he was killed along with a number of other space officers in an attack on the IRGC center.

Major General Golameli Rashid

Rashid, born in 1953, held the position of Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces for 17 years, until 2016. Then he became the commander of the headquarters of the central divide of the Central Center, a strategic center charged with planning and coordinating joint military operations between the Iranian armed forces. Rashid was approved by the United States as a member of the “Internal Circle” in Khamnai in 2019 and the European Union last year to help supply drones to Russia in its war on Ukraine.

Muhammad Mahdi Tahrashi

Tahrashi, born in 1965 in Tehran, was a theoretical physical and head of the Islamic University of Azad in Tehran, and a professor at Shahid Bishti University.

Ferydo Abbasi

Born in 1958, Abbasi was a former head of the Atomic Energy Organization in Iran and an IRGC member. He was injured in an assassination attempt by Israel in 2010, where a motorcycle driver tied a bomb with his car. It was placed under the imposition of sanctions by the United Nations in 2007 for its involvement in “nuclear or ballistic missile activities” and the United States to work to enrich uranium in 2012.

He obtained a doctorate in nuclear physics and was a “laser specialist” and “an expert in nuclear isotopes,” according to the US State Department. He was a professor at Shahid Bishti University.