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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Friday announced that it killed Esmail Ahmadi, the intelligence chief of the Basij militia — a branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — in a series of strikes against Iranian regime targets.
According to a Jerusalem Post report, the military said Ahmadi was killed in attacks earlier this week that also targeted other senior Basij figures, including Gholamreza Soleimani and his deputy Seyyed Karishi.
The announcement came amid a series of strikes by the IDF targeting Iranian regime infrastructure across Tehran during the early morning hours on Friday, which killed Ali Mohammad Naini, a senior IRGC spokesperson, reported _Jerusalem Pos_t, citing Iranian state media
Naini’s killing was also later confirmed the IDF.
Naini also served as the IRGC’s Public Relations Array chief and had held several propaganda and public relations roles, the Israeli military said, describing him as the group’s “main propagandist” over the past two years.
“In his role, Naini disseminated the regime’s terrorist propaganda to its proxies across the Middle East in order to influence and advance terror attacks against the State of Israel from the different fronts. Naini’s elimination joins a series of eliminations of dozens of senior figures of the Iranian regime during the operation,” the IDF said in a statement.
Later on Friday, reports indicated that a Thursday evening attack at a checkpoint in Tabriz killed 13 members of the IRGC’s Basij militia and injured 18 others.
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