{"id":1245980,"date":"2025-06-15T17:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/iran-confirms-death-of-large-number-of-officials\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:40:43","slug":"iran-confirms-death-of-large-number-of-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/iran-confirms-death-of-large-number-of-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran confirms death of large number of officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"213\"><strong>Iran has officially confirmed the death of the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) missile program and seven other high-ranking officers in an Israeli strike.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"213\"> This was reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/iran-lists-head-of-missile-program-7-deputies-killed-in-israeli-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Times of Israel<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"453\"> Among the dead were General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the IRGC&#8217;s aerospace division, and his closest deputies: Mahmoud Bagheri, Davoud Sheikhian, Mohammad Bagher Taherpour, Mansour Safarpour, Masoud Tayeb, Khosro Hasani and Javad Jarsara.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"455\" data-end=\"804\"> Iran has not explained why all these officials were in one place. According to preliminary reports from Israeli sources, the intelligence services carried out a disinformation operation, forcing the leadership of the Iranian air force to gather for a joint meeting. According to <em data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"732\">Fox News<\/em> , the operation exceeded expectations in terms of effectiveness and scale of destruction.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"806\" data-end=\"910\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> The event is likely to be one of the most painful losses for Iran&#8217;s defense command in recent years.<\/p>\n<p> Let us recall that on the night of Friday, June 13, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/izrail-zavdav-udariv-po-iadernykh-ob-iektakh-iranu-u-teherani-poobitsialy-ataku-u-vidpovid\/\">the Israeli army began a large-scale operation against Iran and massively attacked nuclear and military facilities.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Earlier it became known that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zamist-uhody-eskalatsiia-iran-prypynyv-dialoh-iz-ssha-shchodo-iadernoi-prohramy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran refused to participate in negotiations with the United States regarding its nuclear program, scheduled for June 15<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has officially confirmed the death of the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) missile program and seven other high-ranking officers in an Israeli strike. This was reported by the Times of Israel . Among the dead were General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the IRGC&#8217;s aerospace division, and his closest deputies: Mahmoud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1245981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1245980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}