NTD NewsIsrael’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Monday that Majid Khademi, head of the intelligence organization of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), had been eliminated, and vowed retaliation for attacks on civilians. “The Revolutionary Guards fire on civilians, and we eliminate the heads of the terrorists.
The leaders of Iran live in a sense of persecution. We will continue to hunt them one by one,” Katz said. Khademi, who took over in 2025 after Israeli air strikes killed his predecessor, spent decades in intelligence and counter-espionage roles while rising through Iran’s security apparatus. Before his appointment, Khademi headed the Guards’ Intelligence Protection Organisation, charged with internal surveillance and counter-intelligence, and held senior roles in Iran’s defense ministry.
Katz also announced that Israel attacked the South Pars petrochemical plant at Asaluyeh. He said Israel had “just carried out a powerful strike on the largest petrochemical facility in Iran, located in Asaluyeh, a central target responsible for about 50 percent of the country’s petrochemical production.” In his address, Katz warned Iran from targeting Israeli civilians and vowed retaliation by targeting Iranian national infrastructures. Meanwhile, U.S. forces located on Kuwait’s Bubiyan island were targeted by Iran, the spokesperson of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said in a video statement shared by state media on Monday. Ebrahim Zolfaqari said Iran targeted satellite equipment and munitions on the island with drones, adding that U.S. forces had relocated there from Arifjan camp after that base was repeatedly struck by Iran.
