Israeli strikes kill Iran’s Revolutionary Guard leader Gen Hossein Salami
The Hindu
Iranian Revolutionary Guard head killed in Israeli strikes, Gen Hossein Salami, a powerful leader, threatens U.S. and Israel.
Iranian state television confirmed the head of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed in Israel's strikes on Friday (June 13, 2025) morning.
Gen Hossein Salami was the chief of one of the country's most powerful centres, and his death was a tough blow to Iran's embattled leadership, which has had a series of setbacks in the past 20 months of Middle Eastern war and unrest.
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Salami rose to power six years ago and had a history of threatening the U.S. and Israel.
Here's a closer look.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard was created after its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Since it was established, it's evolved from a paramilitary, domestic security force to a transnational force that has come to the aid of Tehran's allies in the Mideast, from Syria and Lebanon to Iraq.
It operates in parallel to the country's existing armed forces and controls Iran's arsenal of ballistic missiles, which it has used to attack Israel twice during the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
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