The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Tuesday claimed that it has killed Iran’s senior-most military official and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s closest military advisor, Ali Shadmani, in an air force strike in Tehran.

In a post on X, IDF stated, “For the second time in 5 days, the IDF has eliminated Iran’s War-Time Chief of Staff, the regime’s top military commander. Ali Shadmani, Iran’s senior-most military official and Khamenei’s closest military advisor, was killed in an IAF strike in central Tehran, following precise intelligence.”

The IDF has said that Israel’s war against Iranian proxies continues on all fronts. According to the IDF, Israeli troops carried out a targeted operation to locate and map out large-scale underground Hamas infrastructure in Khan Yunis.