Majid Khademi, the Head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence organisation. File
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U.S.-Israeli strikes on Monday (April 6, 2026) killed Iran’s Revolutionary Guards intelligence chief, who earlier this 12 months had been sanctioned by the USA for his position in suppressing anti-government protests.
Main Basic Majid Khademi, who, in response to a press release by the Guards was killed in an airstrike at daybreak, was one in all a number of senior figures throughout the drive to be killed to date within the struggle.
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Khademi spent a lot of his profession within the intelligence equipment of the Revolutionary Guards’, the ideological military of the Islamic republic whose mandate is to guard it from inner and exterior threats.
He was promoted to be chief of the Guards’ intelligence when his predecessor Mohammad Kazemi was killed final 12 months in an airstrike in Israel’s 12-day struggle towards Iran.
This meant Khademi was in his position throughout nationwide protests in January which in response to rights teams have been suppressed by forces together with the Revolutionary Guards in a crackdown that left 1000’s useless.
That month the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Khademi, saying that beneath his management the Guards’ intelligence arm “has performed an instrumental position in violently suppressing protests”.
The Guards’ intelligence department, it added, “has underpinned the Iranian safety forces’ nationwide marketing campaign of mass violence, arbitrary detentions, and intimidation geared toward crushing Iran’s protest second”.
Saying Khademi’s dying, the Guards paid tribute to what the drive mentioned was his “nice, lasting and instructive contributions within the fields of intelligence and safety” within the Islamic republic.
It mentioned this had paved the way in which to assist Iran within the years to return confront “international enemies and their sinister and evil plans to infiltrate and destabilise Iran’s safety and peace.”
For the reason that begin of the struggle, U.S.-Israeli airstrikes have killed Iran’s supreme chief Ali Khamenei and an entire echelon of the political and navy elite within the Islamic republic in focused killings.
The Guards had already been hit earlier than the killing of Khademi. Their commander in chief, Mohammad Pakpour, was killed on the primary day of the struggle on February 28 however then changed by former inside minister Ahmad Vahidi.
The chief spokesman of the Guards, the top of its naval department and the top of its Basij militia division have additionally been killed.
However a number of key figures have survived and the Islamic republic has proven resilience in quickly changing killed leaders and likewise maintaining the struggle towards the U.S. and Israel.
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