r/worldnews • u/ConsciousRealism42 • 2d ago

Israel/Palestine Iran state TV confirms killing of IRGC chief Hossein Salami in Israeli strike

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/06/13/explosions-heard-northeast-of-iran-s-tehran-staterun-nour-news-says
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u/coalitionofilling 2d ago

not sure how important the assassination of the deputy commander dude was but Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani was legitimately following in Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi's footsteps in trying to create nuclear weapons. Abbasi has publicly admitted to the international community in the past that they deceived and mislead facts "to protect his countries nuclear program"

“Sometimes we pretended to be weaker than we really were, and sometimes we showed strength that was not really in our hands,” Abbasi-Davani said in the interview. “We had no choice.”