Two members of the Basij paramilitary force were killed in an attack at a shrine in Mashhad, Iran, just hours after Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral. The weakened regime has threatened harsh retaliation against the perpetrators.

Israel said Wednesday it had struck a major Iranian military compound in Tehran housing command centres of the Revolutionary Guards, the elite Quds Force and the Basij paramilitary force.

Israel said Friday it had "eliminated" the intelligence chief of Iran's Basij paramilitary force in a previous strike that also killed the force's top commander.

Israel said it had confirmed that Ismaeil Ahmadi, the chief of Iran's Basij paramilitary force, was "eliminated" in a strike earlier this week that also killed its top commander