Several senior Iranian figures killed in attack by US and Israel

A number of senior figures in Iran are known to have been killed in Saturday’s strikes on Iran.

The Israeli military has also published a list of senior Iranian officials it says were killed in Saturday’s airstrikes.

They include:

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who was killed on Saturday morning at his office Aziz Nasirzadeh, the country’s defense minister Ali Shamkhani, the head of the Iranian Security Council Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Abdolrahim Mousavi, country’s armed forces chief of staff Saleh Asadi, an intelligence official Hossein Jabal Amelian and Reza Mozaffari-Nia, research officials Mohammed Shirazi, longtime defense liason Iranian television State media has also reported that Khamenei’s daughter, son-in-law and grandchild were killed in the attack

An intelligence source and military source has told CBS News that overall around 40 Iranian officials were killed in the strikes.