TEHRAN - The head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization has been martyred in an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian capital, Tehran, amid ongoing US-Israeli aggression.

“Major General Majid Khademi, the capable and highly respected head of the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, was martyred in a criminal terrorist attack by the American-Zionist enemy at dawn today,” the IRGC said in a statement posted on its Telegram channel on Monday.

The statement paid tribute to Khademi’s record, saying the late intelligence chief had sincerely and courageously defended the principles of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, as well as Iran’s Islamic establishment and territorial integrity, for nearly 50 years. It added that he played a distinguished role in various intelligence and security arenas.

The IRGC said Khademi’s tireless efforts — particularly in confronting foreign adversaries at strategic levels — strengthened Iran’s intelligence apparatus and helped thwart repeated hostile attempts to infiltrate the country and undermine national stability and security.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, sent a message expressing his condolences over the martyrdom of General Khademi. The Leader said the assassination shows the failure of the United States and Israel in their war against Iran.

“Once again, the American-Zionist enemy, after suffering repeated defeats in its imposed war against the Iranian people and their brave fighters, has turned to its usual Zionist terrorism and assassinated one of the nation’s top intelligence and security commanders,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf also offered his condolences over Khademi’s martyrdom, stating: “The martyrdom of my dear brother, the steadfast fighter and dedicated head of the IRGC’s Intelligence Organization, Martyr General Seyyed Majid Khademi, demonstrates the weakness of the Zionist regime and the arrogant United States. They are trying to make up for their battlefield failures through cowardly assassinations and by targeting those who fight in the path of God. However, this blind plot by the arrogant powers has always proven futile, and even harsher blows await them.”

President Masoud Pezeshkian also offered condolences on the martyrdom of General Khademi: “Once again, the criminal hands of the American and Zionist enemies have been stained with the blood of a pure and brave son of Iran.”

Pezeshkian noted that General Khademi devoted his life to the battlefields of the eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s and later to the difficult frontlines of safeguarding national security, confronting threats, and protecting the peace of the Iranian people.

Israel has claimed responsibility for the assassination. Several senior Iranian military commanders have been killed in US-Israeli strikes over the past six weeks. However, Iran’s continued attacks against Israeli targets and US forces based in the region suggest that attempts to decapitate Iran’s military leadership have failed to weaken the country’s military capabilities.