{"id":1543751,"date":"2025-06-26T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1543751"},"modified":"2025-06-26T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T04:30:00","slug":"iran-confirms-death-of-war-time-chief-of-staff-after-israeli-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/iran-confirms-death-of-war-time-chief-of-staff-after-israeli-attacks\/1543751\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Confirms Death Of &#8216;War-Time Chief Of Staff&#8217; After Israeli Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Iran Confirms Death Of &#8216;War-Time Chief Of Staff&#8217; After Israeli Attacks<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Israel claims that its military campaign against Iran has resulted in the targeted <strong>killing of at least 14 scientists<\/strong>. Although these were key figures, the reality is that this is\u00a0unlikely to completely halt any potential nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Associated Press, Israel\u2019s ambassador to France has declared that assassinations would make it &#8220;almost&#8221; impossible for Iran to develop nuclear weapons with what infrastructure might remain. Other assessments say that all of this set back the Islamic Republic&#8217;s program by a mere months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/milcommandersscnts_0.jpg?itok=l7ibxJ2i\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course, nuclear scientists are replaceable &#8211; and it remains that the country&#8217;s nuclear energy program has always been large, and a top national priority.<\/p>\n<p>Also important is that on Wednesday Iran belatedly confirmed the death of <strong>Maj. Gen. Ali Shadmani<\/strong>, who succumbed to injuries sustained during Israeli airstrikes last week.<\/p>\n<p>Shadmani had been appointed on June 13 to lead the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, which\u00a0<strong>coordinates operations between Iran\u2019s regular military and the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He filled the top spot following the death of his predecessor, Lt. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, in Israel\u2019s earlier attacks that took the lives of several senior commanders.<\/p>\n<p>Israel had called\u00a0Shadmani Iran&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>\u2018War-Time Chief of Staff\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>upon claiming his death in a targeted operation last week. But Tehran has only now issued official confirmation of his death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/shdmni_0.jpg?itok=YOo8Ekll\"><em>Ali Shadmani\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/israel-iran-conflict-us-trump-06-25-25-intl-hnk?t=1750876550947\">Additionally<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>At least 35 Air Defense Force personnel were killed in the Israeli attacks<\/strong> between June 13 and Tuesday, Iran\u2019s semi-official Student News Network (SNN) said today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SNN published the names of those who were killed. Among them were <strong>two brigadier generals, seven colonels and three lieutenant colonels<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Below are some further casualty figures in Iran following what Trump dubbed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/over-600-people-killed-in-israeli-attacks-in-iran-health-ministry\/3611490\">&#8217;12-day war&#8217;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>At least 627 people were killed<\/strong>\u00a0in Iran during its conflict with Israel in the period between June 13 and June 25, Iranian state media outlet IRIB reported on Wednesday, citing the country\u2019s health ministry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>At least 4,870 other people were injured<\/strong>\u00a0during that time, IRIB said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The health ministry said\u00a0<strong>86% of the victims died at the scene<\/strong>\u00a0of Israeli attacks, as cited by IRIB.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Currently a ceasefire is held, and Iran is assessing the damage &#8211; and likely rapidly trying to replenish losses both in terms of personnel and equipment and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile The <em>GrayZone&#8217;s<\/em> Max Blumenthal weighs in on where things stand regarding Trump&#8217;s statements saying Iran&#8217;s nuclear program has been completely destroyed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Only the most deluded Trump cultists believe Orange McCain destroyed Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, or that it&#8217;s possible to do so in a Top Gun-style raid<\/p>\n<p>Even Israeli nationalists admit Trump&#8217;s attack was a PR stunt, complimenting a leaked DIA assessment, satellite imagery and more <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HMrnkujJDJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/HMrnkujJDJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBlumenthal\/status\/1937873461969313826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among Iran&#8217;s first pressing tasks will be to <strong>quickly try to reconstitute its destroyed anti-air defenses<\/strong>, given that Israeli warplanes apparently achieved total domination and freedom of action over Western Iran&#8217;s skies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 06\/25\/2025 &#8211; 20:30<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/iran-confirms-death-war-time-chief-staff-after-israeli-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/iran-confirms-death-war-time-chief-staff-after-israeli-attacks<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran Confirms Death Of &#8216;War-Time Chief Of Staff&#8217; After Israeli Attacks Israel claims that its military campaign against Iran has resulted in the targeted killing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1543752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}