Wide-scale Israeli attack on Iran kills senior officials including IRGC commander, nuclear scientists

Israel launched a wide-scale attack on Iran early on Friday, in an operation named “Rising Lion”, aimed at “eliminating the Iranian nuclear threat”. A state of emergency was declared across Israel, with the home front command suspending all activities. Ben Gurion Airport was evacuated, all flights were cancelled, and the airspace was shut until further notice. Iranian state media reported that the Israeli airstrike killed Major General Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), along with senior nuclear scientists Fereydoon Abbasi and Mohammad Mahdi Tehranchi. Also killed were Gholam Ali Rashid, head of the central headquarters of the Iranian military, and Abdolhamid Minuchehr, head of the Nuclear Engineering Faculty at Beheshti University. According to Israeli Army Radio, […]