India, June 13 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday launched 'Operation Rising Lion' to "counter the Iranian threat." The operation included airstrikes on Iran's primary nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz and its ballistic missile program.

An Israeli security official, speaking to AFP, claimed the strikes "likely eliminated" Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, Iran's Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces

"It is likely that the Iranian chief of staff and senior nuclear scientists were eliminated in the initial strike," the official told AFP.

Born Mohammad-Hossein Afshordi around 1958-1960 in Tehran, Bagheri is a senior Iranian military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Since 2016, he has served as the Chi...