Iran announces martyrdom of top generals in US-Israeli aggression

TEHRAN, March 01 (YPA) -A number of high-ranking Iranian military commanders are confirmed to have been martyred in a terrorist attack by the US and the Zionist regime in Tehran on Saturday morning, Iranian media reported on Sunday.

According to Iranian TV, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRCG) Major General Mohammad Pakpour, Secretary of Iran’s Defense Council Ali Shamkhani, and Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh were among the figures martyred in the US and Israeli attack on a meeting of the Defense Council on Saturday morning.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei was also martyred in the Saturday attack by criminal US-Israeli forces.

Imam Khamenei led Iran and the Muslim Ummah for 37 years since the demise of the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini in 1989.

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