Majid Khademi (; 6 September 1962 – 6 April 2026) was an Iranian Brigadier General in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who served as head of the IRGC Intelligence Protection Organization from 2022 and of the IRGC Intelligence Organization from 2025 until his assassination in an Israeli airstrike during the 2026 Iran war.
Khademi also appeared in media reports under the name Majid Hosseini; his exact legal name has not been publicly clarified.
Early life and education Majid Khademi held dual PhDs, in national security and in strategic defense sciences.
Career Following the establishment of the IRGC Intelligence Organization, Khademi was mentioned in some reports as a potential successor to Hossein Taeb, who headed the organization at the time, a role with which Khademi was associated until at least 2014.
In May 2018, he was appointed head of the , replacing , and served in this position until 2022.|
In June 2022, he was appointed head of the IRGC Intelligence Protection Organization, with his induction ceremony held on 29 July 2022.
On 19 June 2025, Khademi was appointed head of the IRGC Intelligence Organization, succeeding Mohammad Kazemi, who was killed alongside other IRGC officers in Israeli airstrikes on 15 June during the Twelve-Day War.
Death Khademi was killed in Tehran in an Israeli airstrike on 6 April 2026, during the 2026 Iran war. Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei condemned the assassination, praising Khademi as "self-effacingly struggling on the path of God for decades in the fields of the nation's security, intelligence, and defense."
See also
List of Iranian officials killed during the 2026 Iran war
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