IRGC Commander Hossein Salami killed in Israeli strike on Tehran

Shafaq News/ Major General Hossein Salami, the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed in an Israeli strike that targeted the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Friday.

“The attack struck the IRGC command site as Major General Salami was performing critical responsibilities to safeguard the homeland’s security,” the IRGC said.

Born in 1960 in Vaneshan, Golpayegan County, Isfahan Province, Salami joined the IRGC in the early years of the Islamic Republic and served in multiple roles during the Iran-Iraq war.

Over the decades, he held senior military and academic positions, including the commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force and deputy commander of the IRGC, before being appointed as Commander-in-Chief in May 2019.

He was widely regarded as one of the key architects of Iran’s military doctrine, particularly in missile development and asymmetric warfare.

This story was updated to add the IRGC confirmation of Salami's death