Brigadier General Gholamreza Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Basij paramilitary forces, has been killed in the US-Israeli war on the country, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed. In a statement shared by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency on Tuesday, the IRGC said the 62-year-old was killed in an “attack by the American-Zionist enemy”. Soleimani was the commander of the country’s most powerful internal security forces for the past six years and a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War, having fought on the front lines. Iran also confirmed early on Wednesday that Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, was killed. As US and Israeli forces increasingly target the Basij and other military apparatuses, Soleimani had emerged as a central figure in a war that has seen Iran’s top political and military figures killed. From front-line volunteer to general Soleimani was born in 1964 in the city of Farsan in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. His military career was forged in the trenches of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War. He is not related to Qassem …