The IDF said its strikes hit “over 100 targets, including senior figures of the Iranian General Staff and leaders of the nuclear program.”

An Israeli security source told Fox News that over 20 sites, including apartments and offices, were hit in less than 15 minutes.

Here are the major figures killed in Friday’s decapitation strikes:

Gen. Hossein Salami

Gen. Hossein Salami was the commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a central power broker in the country.

Like most senior Iranian commanders, Salami made a name for himself during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988. He became deputy commander of the IRGC in 2009 before assuming full control in 2019.

Salami was known for his hard-line rhetoric and boasting of Iran’s military capabilities, even claiming that the country was “on the verge of becoming a world power,” the BBC reported.

One day before his death on Friday, he said Iran was “fully ready for any scenarios, situations, and circumstances.”

“The enemy thinks it can fight Iran the same way it fights defenceless Palestinians who are under an Israeli siege,” he said. “We are war-tested and experienced.”

The IRGC was established after the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a counterweight to the armed forces, viewed with distrust due to its previous loyalty to the Shah. It has since morphed into one of the biggest stakeholders of Iranian power, with some analysts believing it controls roughly one-third of the Iranian economy.

Salami’s death was confirmed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini, who appointed Major Gen. Mohammad Pakpour as his replacement.

Mohammad Bagheri

Major Gen. Mohammad Bagheri was the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, the second most powerful man in the country behind Khameini.

He made a name for himself during the Iran-Iraq War, serving in a military intelligence unit. His brother, Hassan, reportedly founded the IRGC’s military intelligence unit during the war and served with distinction as a division commander, ultimately being killed by Iraqi forces. Bagheri took over the branch in 1983 after his brother’s death, according to Iranian media cited by Al Jazeera.

Like most Iranian military figures, Mohammad Bagheri kept a secretive persona but was closely involved in IRGC operations. He was promoted to chief of staff of the armed forces in 2016.

As head of the armed forces, Bagheri commanded 500,000 active personnel.

His death was confirmed by Khameini, who appointed Maj. Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi as his replacement.

Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh

Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh was head of the IRGC Aerospace Forces, which oversaw Iran’s ballistic missile forces. He was tapped as responsible for Iran’s ballistic missile strikes against Israel last year, and a 2019 drone and missile strike against Saudi oil facilities.

The Israel Defense Forces said he was killed in an airstrike against an underground command center.

“Hajizadeh publicly pledged allegiance to the idea of destroying Israel on multiple occasions in recent years and played a central role in formulating the plan to destroy Israel,” a statement from the IDF read.

Gholamali Rashid

Gholamali Rashid served as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, putting him high up in the chain of command behind Bagheri. He was a major commander during the Iran-Iraq War.

Khameini confirmed his death and appointed Major General Ali Shadmani as his replacement.

Ali Shamkhani

Ali Shamkhani was head of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council of the System, one of the country’s most senior advisory bodies. He was also known as a key diplomat and close adviser to Khameini.

Shamkhani represented Iran in high-level China-brokered peace talks with Saudi Arabia, leading to the two re-establishing diplomatic ties after a long-running cold war. Most recently, he took part in nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration.

He was mortally wounded in an Israeli airstrike, dying shortly after in the hospital.

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Nuclear scientists

Iranian state media confirmed the death of six nuclear scientists.

Among them were Fereydoon Abbasi, former head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization; Mohammad Mahdi Tehranchi, president of the Islamic Azad University of Iran and a major figure in Iran’s nuclear weapons program; Abdulhamid Minouchehr, head of nuclear engineering at Shahid Beheshti University; Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari, nuclear engineering professor at Shahid Beheshti University; Amirhossein Feqhi, a nuclear professor at the university; and a nuclear scientist who was identified only as Motallebzadeh, who was allegedly killed along with his wife.

Abbasi had survived an assassination attempt in 2010, which killed fellow nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari. The attempt was widely believed to be the doing of Israel.