Who gets to claim the bounty?
IRGC Public Relations confirms the death of Brigadier General Majid Khademi, Commander of the IRGC Intelligence Organization. He also commanded the Intelligence Protection Organization.
He was killed in a strike on his residence this morning.
Khademi partook in security and intelligence roles for 47 years. He served as Commander of the Information Protection Organization of the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Support between 2018-2022. In 2022 he was appointed to lead the Intelligence Protection Organization of the IRGC. He assumed command of the IRGC Intelligence Organization in June 2025 following the Israeli strike that killed his predecessor, Mohammad Kazemi.
The US State Department had a $10 million bounty on his head.
Moreover, the same Israeli strike on Tehran killed Yazdan Mir (alias Sardar Bagheri), commander of Unit 840, a clandestine operations unit in the IRGC's Quds Force.
The unit conducts kidnapping, assassination, intelligence collection, and covert operations abroad with support from the foreign cells they recruited. They have operational branches in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the US.
Mir was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department in 2020. His deputy, Hassan Sayyad Khodayari, was killed by Israel in 2022.
