Simultaneously with its bombings of military, energy, and logistical facilities, Israel has increasingly been targeting the men who make up the operational brain of Iran. In other words, Israel appears to have chosen a strategy of progressive decapitation, aimed not only at destroying infrastructure or arsenals, but also at depleting the cadres and reflexes of the structure that makes decisions in Tehran. To date, independent confirmation remains partial. Therefore, if the death of Jalali-Nasab and Shariat is fully confirmed, the impact goes beyond two names: it touches on one of the nerves of the Iranian command system. The official Israeli communication presented the episode as another heavy blow to the regime's ability to conduct the war in a coordinated manner. The operation, according to the Israeli version, was carried out by the Air Force with precise guidance from Intelligence Directorate. The most delicate political and military fact is that, according to Israel, both men had assumed interim functions following the previous death of Saleh Asadi, another intelligence officer from the same structure eliminated at the beginning of the current campaign. That is to say, the attack would not only have reached two relevant commanders, but also those who had been designated to reconstitute the regime's chain of analysis and response after previous blows. If that reconstruction is correct, the Israeli offensive would be achieving a particularly sensitive objective: preventing Tehran from stabilizing its intelligence system and quickly replacing the cadres it is losing. Within the Iranian operational logic, the Khatem al-Anbiya command occupies a decisive place. It is the headquarters responsible for coordinating military activities and articulating the command and control of the various branches of the Iranian armed forces. And there, if the Israeli version becomes fully consolidated, Iran would have suffered in recent hours another blow of enormous sensitivity. Some international media reproduced the Israeli communiqué, and reports linked to the Iranian environment would have confirmed at least the death of Jalali-Nasab, although not all sources agree on the degree of verification available regarding Shariat. In this line, the IDF maintains that the elimination of these cadres adds to the fall of dozens of high-ranking commanders during the ongoing operation and seeks to erode the articulation between intelligence, political leadership, and military response. In this framework, its intelligence area performs a critical function: it processes information, produces situation assessments, and supplies the regime's security leadership with analyses on the basis of which courses of action, deployments, and military responses are defined. Jerusalem - March 15, 2026 - Total News Agency - TNA. Israel again deepened its selective offensive against the military and informational structure of Iran and assured that it had eliminated in Tehran two high-ranking intelligence officers of the emergency command Khatem al-Anbiya, one of the central pieces of the regime's command and coordination apparatus. For a regime that depends on hierarchical structures and a highly centralized decision-making process, each loss of this type is especially costly. Thus, the attack in Tehran again shows that the war is no longer fought only on runways, ports, refineries, or launchers, but also on the most delicate of all terrains: that of knowledge, anticipation, and the ability to command. This caution is important amidst a war where information is also part of the combat front. However, even with that margin of prudence, the fact that multiple media and specialized analysis centers have picked up the attack as a relevant episode reinforces the idea that the core of the blow existed and that it is part of a systematic campaign against the regime's intelligence structure. The background is even broader. According to the information accessed by Total News Agency from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), those killed were Abdollah Jalali-Nasab and Amir Shariat, identified as intelligence chiefs within that structure and considered key figures within the Iranian intelligence community. This method seeks to leave Iran with less ability to interpret the battlefield, fewer cadres to coordinate responses, and less margin to reconstitute its chain of command under pressure.
