{"id":47954,"date":"2025-06-21T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=47954"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:35:19","slug":"israel-says-it-killed-top-iran-commander-during-attacks-by-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=47954","title":{"rendered":"Israel says it killed top Iran commander during attacks by both sides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JERUSALEM\/ISTANBUL\/WASHINGTON, June 21 &#8211; Israel said on Saturday it had killed a veteran Iranian commander during attacks by both sides in the more than week-long air war, while Tehran said it would not negotiate over its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/how-close-is-iran-having-nuclear-weapons-2025-06-18\/\">nuclear programme<\/a>\u00a0while under threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/israeli-defense-minister-says-military-killed-head-palestine-corps-irgcs-2025-06-21\/\">Saeed Izadi,<\/a>&nbsp;who led the Palestine Corps of the Quds Force, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards&#8217; overseas arm, was killed in a strike on an apartment in the Iranian city of Qom, said Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calling his killing a &#8220;major achievement for Israeli intelligence and the Air Force&#8221;, Katz said in a statement that Izadi had financed and armed the Palestinian militant group Hamas ahead of its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which triggered the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/israel-hamas\/\">war in Gaza.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Revolutionary Guards said five of its members died in attacks on Khorramabad, according to Iranian media. They did not mention Izadi, who was on U.S. and British sanctions lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian media said earlier on Saturday that Israel had attacked a building in Qom, with initial reports of a 16-year-old killed and two people injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 430 people have been killed and 3,500 injured in Iran since Israel began its attacks on June 13, Iranian state-run Nour News said, citing the health ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Israel, 24 civilians have been killed by Iranian missile attacks, according to local authorities, in the worst conflict between the longtime enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel says Iran was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons, while Iran says its atomic programme is only for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel is widely assumed to possess nuclear weapons, which it neither confirms nor denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) JERUSALEM\/ISTANBUL\/WASHINGTON, June 21 &#8211; Israel said on Saturday it had killed a veteran Iranian commander during attacks by both sides in the more than week-long air war, while Tehran said it would not negotiate over its\u00a0nuclear programme\u00a0while under threat. Saeed Izadi,&nbsp;who led the Palestine Corps of the Quds Force, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards&#8217; overseas arm, was killed in a strike on an apartment in the Iranian city of Qom, said Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz. Calling his killing a &#8220;major achievement for Israeli intelligence and the Air Force&#8221;, Katz said in a statement that Izadi had financed and armed&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47956,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47954\/revisions\/47956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}