India, April 6 -- Major General Majid Khademi, a senior intelligence official of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was assassinated in an US airstrike, the force said on Monday.

Khademi, who headed the IRGC's Intelligence Protection Organization and also served within its Intelligence Organisation, died in what the Guards described as a targeted American strike at dawn.

The IRGC confirmed his death, alleging the attack was carried out by what it called the "American-Zionist enemy." He was "martyred," they said in a statement carried by Iran's Tasnim News Agency.

The statement was also shared on the Guards' official Telegram channel. "Major General Majid Khademi, the powerful and educated head of the Intelligence Organisa...