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Israel mentioned on Tuesday that it had killed Iran’s wartime chief of workers Maj. Gen. Ali Shamdani, the nation’s most senior navy chief. IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin mentioned in an announcement that Shamdani was killed on the regime’s headquarters in Tehran.
“For the second time in 5 days, the IDF has eradicated Iran’s Wartime Chief of Workers, the regime’s prime navy commander,” the IDF wrote on X. “Ali Shadmani, Iran’s senior-most navy official and Khamenei’s closest navy advisor, was killed in an IAF strike in central Tehran, following exact intelligence.”
An enormous plume of smoke and fireplace rise from an oil refinery in southern Tehran following reviews that an in a single day Israeli strike focused the location on June 15, 2025. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)
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Shamdani led the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters — additionally known as Iran’s navy emergency command — for about 4 days earlier than he was killed, based on the Times of Israel. Shamdani was preceded by Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, who was killed in Israel’s preliminary strikes on Iran on June 13.
In his function, Shamdani allegedly managed fight operations and authorised Iran’s assault plans, the Instances of Israel reported.
NBC News reported that Israel took out the commander “within the coronary heart of Tehran,” seizing a “sudden alternative.”
Smoke rises after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday, with explosions booming throughout Tehran. (Getty)
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Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei introduced on his English-language X account that Shadmani could be taking Rashid’s place after the Iranian navy chief was killed in Israel’s original attacks.
“In view of Lt. Gen. Gholamali Rashid’s martyrdom by the hands of the vile Zionist regime, and in mild of Main Common Ali Shadmani’s meritorious service and priceless expertise, I confer the rank of Main Gen. & appoint him Commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya (pbuh) Central HQ,” Khamenei wrote in a put up on X.
On this photograph launched by the Iranian Crimson Crescent Society rescuers work on the scene of an explosion after an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (Iranian Crimson Crescent Society by way of AP)
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Because the launch of Operation Rising Lion, Israel has taken out a number of key figures in Iran’s navy and nuclear proliferation packages.
In an announcement, Defrin vowed that Israel would “relentlessly pursue” its enemies “via superior intelligence capabilities, exploiting rising alternatives, air superiority, and complicated operational planning.”
