At least seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including one woman and a Muslim leader, have been confirmed killed as a result of Israel’s attack yesterday on a base in the province of Alborz near Tehran, Al Jazeera reports.

Brigadier General Mojtaba Karami, the deputy commander of the force in the province, was the top commander killed, according to a statement by the IRGC’s command in Alborz carried by state media.

Among the six others killed were three more senior officers, one female member of the IRGC, one member of the Basij paramilitary force, and a Muslim scholar who acted as a representative of the supreme leader to the Alborz office.

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