In connection with the Israeli air campaign, the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, has been operating on Iranian soil and targeting senior Iranian nuclear scientists and military officers in an attempt to shatter the Iranian military’s chain of command.

The general had been appointed after the death of the Islamic Revolution leader Lieutenant-General Gholamali Rashid.

"Israel is being assisted this way or that way by some Iranians," ex-Israeli National Security chief Giora Eiland told Newsweek.

In a precision strike near Tehran, IAF kills top Iranian intelligence figures, including the heads of IRGC and Quds Force intelligence, dealing 'significant blow' to Iran’s terror planning and regional influence.

President Trump rejected an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a senior U.S. official told USA TODAY.

Israeli ambulance services confirmed that the death toll from the latest Iranian missile strike has risen to 11.

The Israeli military said it killed nine senior scientists and experts who played a role in Iran’s nuclear program in strikes Friday. Israel says Iran intends to build a nuclear weapon, and is quite close to being able to.

Gholam-Reza Marhabi, Iran’s top intelligence officer, and Mohammad Bagheri, commander of the IRGC’s missile array, named among figures killed in Israel's Operation Rising Lion.

An Israeli plan to assassinate Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as part of its military offensive targeting the country's nuclear program has been privately vetoed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Israel had prepared for the possibility that the war could last for weeks, but that timeline may now be shortened.