Apart from General Mousavi, Major General Ali Shadmani has been appointed Commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, and Major General Mohammad Pakpour is now Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC,

Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, was the most senior leader among the dead, according to Iranian state media.

Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country’s nuclear program and raised the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries.

Reza Pahlavi, writing in Persian, stated that war, likely between Israel-US and Iran, would be "Khamenei's war and the Islamic Republic's war," and not Iran or the the Iranian people's war.

The Israeli strikes killed at least three of Iran’s top military commanders, as well as nuclear scientists and other leadership figures.

As the head of the secretive Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami, was one of the most powerful men in Iran, overseeing its most potent military arm and reporting directly to its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Israel launched Operation Rising Lion aimed at neutralising what it calls an "existential threat" posed by Iran. Khamenei has vowed that the strikes will be avenged., Middle East News - Times Now

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is alive and is being continuously briefed about the situation, a security source told Reuters, following an Israeli attack on Iran early on Friday.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei appointed Brigadier General Ali Shadmani as the new commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters.