Thursday 24th of September 2026

Iran’s Defense Minister and Army Chief Killed, Tehran Officially Acknowledges

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  • Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasserzadeh and Army Chief of Staff Abdolrahim Mousavi were killed in a joint US-Israeli attack.

    Iran’s semi-official news outlet Tasnim News confirmed this information on Sunday morning .

    Tehran said the two top security officials were killed in a military operation early Sunday, a day after the United States and Israel launched coordinated missile strikes on Iranian targets on Saturday morning.

    The attack comes after two other senior figures in Iran’s military were killed – Mohammad Pakpour, a top commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , and Ali Shamkhani, a defense adviser .

    The series of assassinations has created an unprecedented vacuum in Iran’s military leadership, which analysts believe is pushing the ongoing conflict in the Middle East into further uncertainty.

    Source: CNN

     

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