The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed this Sunday the elimination of Ahmadreza Radan, the chief of Tehran Police, renowned for his brutal methods of repression and his ideological fanaticism. Radan, internationally nicknamed "the Butcher of Tehran", was targeted in a precise attack as part of Operation "Rising Lion", an Israeli military offensive against the repressive and nuclear infrastructure of the Iranian regime.
Radan had become a symbol of state terror in Iran. From his position in the Persian capital, he publicly ordered women who defied the Islamic dress code to be beaten until they suffered irreversible harm, and he personally supervised public executions of homosexuals, who were hanged from cranes as a warning to the rest of society. His downfall represents a severe blow to the internal structure of the social control apparatus of the ayatollahs' regime.
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, celebrated the success of the military operation and emphasized that the offensive is not directed against the Iranian people, but against the "murderous Islamic regime that oppresses and impoverishes them."
"In the last 24 hours, we've eliminated senior military commanders, top nuclear scientists, the most important enrichment facility of the Islamic regime, and a large part of its ballistic missile arsenal," Netanyahu stated in a message published on the X network.
