The Israeli military announced it had killed Gholam Reza Soleimani, commander of Iran's Basij paramilitary organization for the past six years, in a precision airstrike carried out overnight in the heart of Tehran.
The Basij - the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' volunteer paramilitary force - played a central and brutal role in suppressing Iran's recent popular uprising © Mena Today
The Israeli military announced it had killed Gholam Reza Soleimani, commander of Iran's Basij paramilitary organization for the past six years, in a precision airstrike carried out overnight in the heart of Tehran.
According to the IDF communiqué, the air force conducted "a precise strike" in the Iranian capital "based on intelligence provided by military intelligence", describing the operation as part of a broader campaign that has already eliminated "dozens of senior officials" linked to Iran's security apparatus, delivering "an additional blow" to its command structures.
The Basij - the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' volunteer paramilitary force - played a central and brutal role in suppressing Iran's recent popular uprising, during which thousands of protesters were killed by security forces. Under Soleimani's command, the organization served as the regime's most feared internal repression tool, the front line against Iran's own population.
His elimination removes one of the key architects of that repression from the battlefield.
Israel's Systematic Decapitation Campaign
The strike on Soleimani is the latest in Israel's methodical targeting of Iran's security and military leadership - following the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, multiple IRGC commanders and, most recently, security chief Ali Larijani.
The IDF made its intentions clear: it "will continue its operations against the leaders" of the Iranian regime and its security apparatus.
Saudi Arabia expects imminent coordinated attacks from Iraqi militias north of the Gulf state and from Yemen's Houthis from the south under the supervision of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a senior Saudi official said.
An Iranian parliamentary committee is reviewing a preliminary bill that would bar U.S., Israeli and other "hostile" vessels from transiting the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported, citing a lawmaker.
With President Donald Trump’s war against Iran now in its sixth month, this week's flurry of threats and diplomacy has underscored the ever-tighter bind he finds himself in as he tries to extricate the U.S. from an unpopular conflict he originally claimed would last just weeks.
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