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Commander of the Iranian Aerospace Force of Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh
TEHRAN, June 13 (KUNA) -- The official Iranian Television Channel announced on Friday that the Commander of the Iranian Aerospace Force of Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh was assassinated in the Israeli occupation strikes on Tehran.
It noted that Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri, Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami, and other military and civilian figures have been assassinated in the Israeli occupation strikes.
Mohammad-Mehdi Tehranchi, a nuclear scientist and president of the Islamic Azad University, and Fereydoun Abbasi, also a nuclear scientist and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Commander of Khatam al-Anbia Headquarters Major General Gholamali Rashid were also killed in separate strikes, it added. (end)
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