The Israeli military said Monday it carried out overnight strikes on three airports in Tehran, targeting several Iranian planes and helicopters.
Dozens of Israeli fighter jets struck aircraft and other military infrastructure at Bahram Airport, Mehrabad Airport and Azmayesh Airport in Tehran, the military said.
It described Mehrabad Airport, which has been hit several times before in the ongoing war, as a hub used by the Iran Revolutionary Guardsâ Quds Force to transfer weapons and funds to allied groups in the region.
The Israeli military said the strikes were part of efforts aimed at âdegrading the Iranian Air Force and the IRGC air force at airports in Tehranâ.
Also, the US-Israeli strikes on Monday killed Iranâs Revolutionary Guards intelligence chief, who earlier this year had been sanctioned by the United States for his role in suppressing anti-government protests.
Major General Majid Khademi, who, according to a statement by the Guards, was killed in an airstrike at dawn, was one of several senior figures within the force to be killed so far in the war.
Khademi spent much of his career in the intelligence apparatus of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, whose mandate is to protect it from internal and external threats.
He was promoted to be chief of the Guardsâ intelligence when his predecessor, Mohammad Kazemi, was killed last year in an airstrike in Israelâs 12-day war against Iran.
This meant Khademi was in his role during nationwide protests in January which, according to rights groups, were suppressed by forces including the Revolutionary Guards in a crackdown that left thousands dead.
That month, the US Treasury sanctioned Khademi, saying that under his leadership, the Guardsâ intelligence arm âhas played an instrumental role in violently suppressing protestsâ.
The Guardsâ intelligence branch, it added, âhas underpinned the Iranian security forcesâ national campaign of mass violence, arbitrary detentions, and intimidation aimed at crushing Iranâs protest movementâ.
Announcing Khademiâs death, the Guards paid tribute to what the force said was his âgreat, lasting and instructive contributions in the fields of intelligence and securityâ in the Islamic Republic.
It said this had paved the way to help Iran in the years to come, confront âforeign enemies and their sinister and evil plans to infiltrate and destabilise Iranâs security and peace.â
Since the start of the war, US-Israeli airstrikes have killed Iranâs supreme leader Ali Khamenei and a whole echelon of the political and military elite in the Islamic Republic in targeted killings.
The Guards had already been hit before the killing of Khademi. Their commander in chief, Mohammad Pakpour, was killed on the first day of the war on February 28 but then replaced by former interior minister Ahmad Vahidi.
The chief spokesman of the Guards, the head of its naval branch and the head of its Basij militia division have also been killed.
But several key figures have survived and the Islamic Republic has shown resilience in rapidly replacing killed leaders and also keeping up the war against the US and Israel.
(AFP)
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