Iranian Major Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in Israel’s attack on the Islamic Republic, according to people familiar with the matter and Iranian media.

Hossein Salami, the commander of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was among the senior Iranian officials killed in Israel’s sweeping air strikes that began on Thursday. A longtime confidant of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,

Iranian state television has confirmed that Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, was killed in Israel’s strikes Friday morning.