Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been killed in a US-Israeli airstrike in Tehran, along with several of his bodyguards who were members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The attack also claimed the lives of other high-ranking officials of the Islamic Republic.
According to reports, Ahmadinejad was under house arrest at the time and was killed in a targeted strike on his residence.
He was Iran’s sixth president from 2005 to 2013.
At home and abroad, he was often viewed as a confrontational hardliner whose economic decisions contributed to rising inflation, and whose provocative rhetoric further isolated Iran on the international stage.
He became especially infamous in the West for his remarks on Israel and the Holocaust. At a 2005 conference titled “A World Without Zionism,” he invoked Iran’s founding leader, now deceased Ayatollah Khomeini, describing Israel as “the occupying regime of Jerusalem” and a “disgraceful cancerous growth” that “must be wiped off the map.”
Supporters later argued that translations of his comments were disputed, but critics insisted that the meaning was unmistakably hostile.
