{"id":56272,"date":"2026-04-06T09:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56272"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:05:21","slug":"intelligence-head-of-irans-revolutionary-guards-killed-in-strike-media-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56272","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence head of Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards killed in strike, media say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April 6  &#8211; The head of the intelligence organisation of Iran&#8217;s \u200belite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps \u200cwas killed on Monday in a &#8220;terrorist attack by the American-Zionist (Israeli) enemy&#8221;, \u200bIranian media said, citing a \u200bstatement by the Guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Majid Khademi, \u2060who becomes the latest key \u200bfigure&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/which-key-iranian-figures-have-been-killed-us-israeli-strikes-2026-03-28\/\">killed<\/a>&nbsp;in U.S.-Israeli air strikes, \u200btook over in 2025 after Israeli air strikes killed his predecessor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spent decades \u200bin intelligence and counter-espionage roles \u200bwhile rising through Iran\u2019s security apparatus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before his \u200cappointment, \u2060Khademi headed the Guards&#8217; Intelligence Protection Organisation, charged with internal surveillance and counter-intelligence, and held \u200bsenior roles \u200bin \u2060Iran\u2019s defence ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IRGC intelligence arm is one \u200bof Iran\u2019s most powerful \u200bsecurity \u2060bodies, with a central role in domestic surveillance to counter foreign \u2060influence, \u200band often operating \u200bin parallel with the civilian intelligence ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editing \u200bby Toby Chopra and Clarenc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) April 6 &#8211; The head of the intelligence organisation of Iran&#8217;s \u200belite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps \u200cwas killed on Monday in a &#8220;terrorist attack by the American-Zionist (Israeli) enemy&#8221;, \u200bIranian media said, citing a \u200bstatement by the Guards. Majid Khademi, \u2060who becomes the latest key \u200bfigure&nbsp;killed&nbsp;in U.S.-Israeli air strikes, \u200btook over in 2025 after Israeli air strikes killed his predecessor. He spent decades \u200bin intelligence and counter-espionage roles \u200bwhile rising through Iran\u2019s security apparatus. Before his \u200cappointment, \u2060Khademi headed the Guards&#8217; Intelligence Protection Organisation, charged with internal surveillance and counter-intelligence, and held \u200bsenior roles \u200bin \u2060Iran\u2019s defence ministry. The&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56272","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\/56272","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=56272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56274,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56272\/revisions\/56274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}