According to security analyst Yair Goldblatt, citing Iranian media reports, senior Iranian Air Force officer Younes Hajji Azizi was killed in the recent wave of US strikes. The claim is unverified and based on a single source.
According to security analyst Yair Goldblatt, citing Iranian media reports, senior Iranian Air Force officer Younes Hajji Azizi was killed in the recent wave of US strikes. The claim is unverified and based on a single source, and no official confirmation has been provided by Iranian authorities or the US military.
The Zioneer has previously reported on similar unverified claims of senior Iranian casualties during the current US-Iran kinetic conflict, including a June 11 report of an Air Force commander and a July 8 report of a Basij operative. Those reports, like this one, emerged from single sources and lacked official corroboration.
The exact role of Hajji Azizi remains unclear. Iranian sources describe him as a pilot, but it is not specified whether he served in the air force's conventional aviation wing or in the drone warfare division.
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