{"id":1370770,"date":"2026-03-17T22:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/iran-confirms-death-of-basij-paramilitary-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:51:23","slug":"iran-confirms-death-of-basij-paramilitary-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/iran-confirms-death-of-basij-paramilitary-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran confirms death of Basij paramilitary leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed the death of the head of the Basij volunteer paramilitary force, Gholam Reza Soleimani.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/farsna\/421077\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Fars news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGeneral Gholam Reza Soleimani, head of the Basij organization, was killed,\u201d the message said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the IDF had carried out a series of strikes on Iran, one of which killed Gholamreza Soleimani, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog-march-17-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as quoted by<\/a> The Times of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLarijani and the Basij commander were eliminated overnight, and they joined Khamenei and all the eliminated members of the axis of evil in the depths of hell,\u201d the minister said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Recall that the previous <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tilo-znayshly-pid-zavalamy-rezydentsii-v-irani-likviduvaly-verkhovnoho-lidera-ali-khamenei\/\">Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, was killed<\/a> in late February as a result of a US and Israeli operation.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed the death of the head of the Basij volunteer paramilitary force, Gholam Reza Soleimani. This was reported by the Fars news agency. \u201cGeneral Gholam Reza Soleimani, head of the Basij organization, was killed,\u201d the message said. Earlier, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the IDF had carried out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1214653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76873,76875,76871],"class_list":["post-1370770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370770","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1214653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}