Several senior Iranian figures killed in attack by US and Israel
March 1, 2026 02:03 pm
A number of senior figures in Iran are known to have been killed in Saturday’s strikes on Iran.
The Israeli military has also published a list of senior Iranian officials it says were killed in Saturday’s airstrikes.
They include:
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who was killed on Saturday morning at his office
- Aziz Nasirzadeh, the country’s defense minister
- Ali Shamkhani, the head of the Iranian Security Council
- Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
- Abdolrahim Mousavi, country’s armed forces chief of staff
- Saleh Asadi, an intelligence official
- Hossein Jabal Amelian and Reza Mozaffari-Nia, research officials
- Mohammed Shirazi, longtime defense liason
Iranian television State media has also reported that Khamenei’s daughter, son-in-law and grandchild were killed in the attack
An intelligence source and military source has told CBS News that overall around 40 Iranian officials were killed in the strikes.
- Agencies
