TEHRAN: An Israeli strike on Sunday killed the intelligence chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Mohammed Kazemi, along with two other officers, the official IRNA news agency reported.
“Three intelligence generals, Mohammad Kazemi, Hassan Mohaghegh and Mohsen Bagheri were assassinated and fell as martyrs,” the agency said, citing a Revolutionary Guards statement.
The deaths of Kazemi and his deputy were also announced by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency said.
Iran has vowed to “open the gates of hell” in retaliation in what has emerged as the biggest-ever confrontation between old enemies.
Kazemi was appointed as IRGC intelligence chief in mid-2022 to replace Hossein Taeb, who was dismissed as Turkiye arrested eight people working for an alleged Iranian terror cell that planned to murder Israeli tourists in Istanbul.
