The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), on Tuesday, eliminated Iran’s newly appointed military chief, Ali Shadmani, in an airstrike in central Tehran. “For the second time: The IDF has eliminated Iran’s War-Time Chief of Staff, the regime’s top military commander,” the Israel military said in a statement Tuesday morning.
Shadmani, who held the grand title of “Chief of Staff and Commander of the Armed Forces’ Emergency Command,” was elevated to the position after his predecessor, Alam Ali Rashid, was killed in the initial wave of strikes launched by the IDF as part of the ‘Rising Lion’ on early Friday.
He “commanded both the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Iranian army,” the IDF noted.
The strike that took out the chief of Iranian armed forces comes after Israel on Monday afternoon issued evacuation order for parts of Tehran ahead of impending air raids — thereby minimizing civilian casualties.
Israeli fighter jets “struck a staffed command center in the heart of Tehran and eliminated Ali Shadmani, the War-Time Chief of Staff, the most senior military commander,” IDF disclosed.
Besides eliminating the serving Iranian armed forces chief, the Israeli airstrikes have nearly eliminated the entire command structure of Iran’s military, air force and intelligence service. Dozens of senior-most scientists running the regime’s rogue nuclear program have also been taken out.
Iran’s top war-time general was directing indiscriminate missiles and drones attacks on Israeli town and cities which began four days ago. “The emergency command center “Khatam al-Anbiya,” under his command, was responsible for managing combat operations and approving Iran’s firepower plans,” the IDF observed. “In his various roles, he directly influenced Iran’s operational plans targeting the State of Israel.”
Shadmani, Iran’s senior-most military commander, was a close confidant of Iranian dictator Ali Khamenei. “Last night, following precise intelligence received by the Intelligence Directorate, we eliminated Ali Shadmani, the most senior military commander of the Iranian regime during the war,” the IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen., Effie Defrin, announced. “He was eliminated at the Iranian regime’s headquarters in the center of Tehran. Shadmani served as the wartime Chief of Staff of the Iranian regime’s armed forces and was the closest associate of Iran’s Supreme Leader.”
The Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported the significance of Shadmani’s elimination:
Under Shadmani’s leadership, the “Khatem Al-Anbiya” Emergency Command was responsible for managing combat operations and approving fire plans directed at the State of Israel.Before his promotion, Shadmani served as deputy commander of the Emergency Command and headed the Operations Department of Iran’s General Staff. Throughout his military career, he played a pivotal role in coordinating missile launches, drone attacks, and other hostile operations against Israeli targets.The targeted killing of Shadmani marks another critical blow to Iran’s military command structure amid ongoing hostilities and follows a series of recent assassinations aimed at dismantling the upper echelons of the Iranian armed forces. Israeli officials have described the operation as part of a broader strategy to disrupt Iran’s ability to wage coordinated attacks in the region.
“We will relentlessly pursue our enemies through advanced intelligence capabilities, exploiting emerging opportunities, air superiority, and complex operational planning. Simultaneously, we continued striking targets in several areas across Iran,” the IDF spokesman Defrin assured.
With Israel decimating Iran’s military command, President Donald Trump demanded nothing less than a “complete give-up” by the Mullah regime.
“I’m not looking for a ceasefire, we’re looking at better than a ceasefire,” President Trump told reporters Tuesday on his flight back from the G7 summit in Canada.
What he wanted, was “an end, a real end, not a ceasefire,” he said, demanding a “complete give-up” by the Iranian regime.
President Trump said that he was in no “mood to negotiate” with Iran’s ruling Mullahs after they ignored his 60-day ultimatum, which ended last week, to agree to a new nuclear deal.
“They should have done the deal. I told them, do the deal,” president said. “So I don’t know. I’m not too much in the mood to negotiate.”
“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, it’s very simple.” he declared.
Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets were operating in Iranian airspace, destroying missiles launchers aimed towards Israeli.
“A short while ago, the IAF completed a series of strikes in western Iran,” the IDF announced Tuesday afternoon. “As part of the strikes, a number of sites and dozens of surface-to-surface missile launchers were struck.”
The aerial strikes were also targeting Iranian air defense systems. The military revealed that “since the morning, the IAF conducted intelligence-based strikes on surface-to-air missile launch sites and radars embedded in western Iran.”
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