 "This handout picture released by the Iranian Red Crescent on June 14, 2025, show Iranian Red Crescent volunteers working in a Tehran neighbourhood hit by a reported Israeli strike. (Photo by Iranian Red Crescent / AFP)")
Brigadier General Mohammad Kazemi, the intelligence chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and his deputy, General Hassan Mohaqiq, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Tehran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News. “Moments ago, I can tell you we got their chief intelligence officer and his deputy in Tehran,” he said.
Iran’s official news agency IRNA also confirmed the deaths, quoting a statement from the Revolutionary Guards that said three intelligence generals—Mohammad Kazemi, Hassan Mohaqiq, and Mohsen Bagheri—had been “assassinated and fell as martyrs.”
Israel and Iran continued to launch missile attacks on each other from Sunday night into early Monday, defying global calls for a ceasefire as the conflict entered its third day.
Tehran accused Israel of bombing oil refineries and killing the IRGC’s intelligence chief along with two other top generals. Iran also claimed that several civilian areas were hit in the latest round of airstrikes.