Tehran, Iran – Iran promoted several commanders to the top of the military leadership after Israel killed their predecessors in a series of air strikes.
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) The country has moved significantly as the country defends the Israeli attack and launches a retaliatory strike.
Let’s see which commanders were killed and replaced their commanders, what this means for the fatal conflict in the future.
Senior senior of the murdered commander?
Some senior Iranian military leaders were killed in multiple Israeli attacks, which began early Friday.
Iran’s supreme military commander, general Mohammad BagheriIt is one of the casualties. The senior Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s was the chief of staff of the armed forces, answering only the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Other members of the General Staff of the Armed Forces were also among them, including Mehdi Rabani’s operational deputy and Intelligence Agency Deputy Gholamreza Mehrabi.
The IRGC also lost a considerable number of top figures in its chain of command, including the chief Hossein Salamithe head of the army.
The IRGC’s elite aerospace division was tasked with developing Iran’s massive missile program, confirming the killing of eight senior commanders summoned in an underground bunker in Tehran.
Long-term Aerospace Administration Director Ali Akbar Hajizadeh was killed and led the rulers of missile defense and drones.
Who is the new commander?
Khamenei hired Abdolrahim Mousavi, commander-in-chief of the Iranian army, to become the new chief of staff of the armed forces.
The 65-year-old Brigadier has now become the first Army commander to hold the position – the person who previously held the position comes from within the IRGC.
Mousavi is also a veteran and completed military training and research at the Supreme National Defense University after the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
To lead the IRGC, Khamenei chose the experienced commander Mohammad Pakpour, who started and pursued a career in elite troops. He led the IRGC’s armored forces and then fought a combatant during the 1980s during the war with Iraq.
General Mohamed Parkpur is the new head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [File: AFP]
Pakpour led the IRGC ground forces for 16 years before being appointed Commander-in-Chief. He is also a representative of the IRGC Operation and is used to lead the two main headquarters of the troops.
Iran’s supreme leader also promoted Amir Hatami to the rank of major general and appointed him as commander of the army.
The 59-year-old, another professional soldier, was promoted during the Iraqi invasion, especially after Operation Messad. That’s Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK)he helped win the revolution, but later emerged as the theocracy enterprise, attacked Iranian lands with Iraqi forces and suffered huge defeats.
Brigadier General Majid Mousavi is also the new aerospace chief of IRGC. He is believed to be an outstanding figure who is working to develop Iran’s ballistic missiles, drone systems and Western criticism space is launched. He also worked closely with Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, known as the “father of the Iranian missile program”, who died in 2011 in a missile warehouse explosion, which Iran ruled as accidental.
All newly promoted commanders declared their commitment to Israel’s revenge, and the slogans on banners across the country were read: “You start the war, we will end the war”.
Hatami said in a statement that under his command, the Army would “show a decisive and effective blow to the Zionist regime that faked and killed children”, referring to Israel.
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The new commander has fired hundreds of explosive drones and ballistic and cruise missiles to Israel over the past three nights and said he is preparing for a long campaign.
So far, Iran’s projectiles have attacked military bases and residential buildings, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens of people.
Tehran commanders also began attacking Israel’s energy infrastructure on Sunday after Israeli fighter jets Targeted Iranian oil and gas facilitiespetrochemical, steel and automotive plants as well as many residential buildings.
Iranian authorities said more than 220 people, including at least 25 children, were victims of the Israeli strike.
The explosions kept ringing Sunday when the Israeli army bombed the Niavaran in the north, Saadat Abad in the west and Valiasr and Hafte Tir in the heart of Tehran on Sunday.
