Mohammed Kazemi, Iran’s intelligence chief has been reportedly killed in an Israeli strike on Tehran on Sunday.
Kazemi, the head of intelligence for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed alongside Hassan Mohaqiq, his deputy, and Mohsen Bagheri, a third intelligence officer, during an attack on the capital.
Benjamin Netanyahu announced the deaths in an interview with Fox News.
“Moments ago, I can tell you, we got their chief intelligence officer and his deputy in Tehran”, Netanyahu’s claims were confirmed by Iranian state media a short while later.
This latest attack on the top brass of the Iranian military comes just days after Israel wiped out four other high-ranking military officials and several nuclear scientists.
Netanyahu has maintained that Israel’s offensive against Iran is a “pre-emptive strike”, intended to dismantle a covert programme dedicated to building a nuclear bomb.
He also claimed in the Fox News interview that Israel had destroyed Iran’s primary Natanz nuclear enrichment site.
The nuclear facility in Natanz was capable of enriching uranium in centrifuges up to 60 per cent, just under the purity required to build a nuclear weapon.
