TEHRAN: Israeli strikes killed the intelligence chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, because the Islamic Republic on Monday (Apr 6) defied threats from US President Donald Trump to devastate civilian infrastructure if it doesn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The warring sides stored up their barrage of strikes, with Iranian missiles and drones concentrating on Israel, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, and Israeli strikes hitting Iran and swathes of Lebanon the place it’s battling Tehran-backed Hezbollah.
Iran stated that “rather more devastating” assaults would come if Trump adopted by on his vow to hit civilian targets.
The American chief had in social media posts Sunday threatened to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure if Tehran doesn’t bow to his demand to reopen the Gulf to delivery by “Tuesday, 8pm Japanese Time!” (8am, Wednesday, Singapore time)
Iran has all however blocked the Strait of Hormuz, a significant vitality chokepoint, sending oil and fuel costs hovering and pushing nations around the globe to enact measures to comprise the fallout.
In a stark, expletive-laden put up on Sunday, Trump demanded: “Open the F*****’ Strait, you loopy b*******, otherwise you’ll be dwelling in Hell.”
Tehran’s Deputy International Minister Kazem Gharibabadi responded to Trump by saying that the US chief had “publicly threatened to commit struggle crimes” by menacing bridges and energy vegetation.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards stated the strait “won’t ever return to its former standing, particularly for the US and Israel”.
The Guards posted on Telegram Monday that their intelligence chief Majid Khademi had been killed “at daybreak” in US-Israeli strikes.
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz stated his nation’s navy had been behind the strike, saying that it had been a response to Iran’s assaults on civilian areas in Israel.
Katz referred to as Khademi “one of many direct perpetrators of those struggle crimes and one of many prime three officers within the organisation”, and stated of Iran’s leaders: “We are going to proceed to hunt them one after the other.”
Majid Khademi, who grew to become the most recent key determine killed in air strikes, took over in 2025 after Israeli air strikes killed his predecessor.
He spent a long time in intelligence and counter-espionage roles whereas rising by Iran’s safety equipment.
Earlier than his appointment, Khademi headed the Guards’ Intelligence Safety Organisation, charged with inner surveillance and counter-intelligence, and held senior roles in Iran’s defence ministry.
The IRGC intelligence arm is one among Iran’s strongest safety our bodies, with a central position in home surveillance to counter overseas affect, and sometimes working in parallel with the civilian intelligence ministry.
