Iranian Defense Minister General Aziz Nasserzadeh and Chief of Army Staff General Abdolrahim Mousavi were killed in a joint Israeli-US airstrike, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday. They were killed in an airstrike targeting a meeting of Iran's National Defense Council. Nasserzadeh's death was officially confirmed. Several commanders of the armed forces were also killed, the statement said, adding that their names would be announced later.