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Yazdan Mir Iranian intelligence operative, commander of Unit 840, airstrike dies

Yazdan Mir

Yazdan Mir, an Iranian intelligence operative and commander of Unit 840, died on April 6, 2026, after Israel announced he had been killed in airstrikes in Tehran.

Also known by the aliases Sardar Bagheri and Asghar Bagheri, he was identified as a high-ranking member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force and a senior official within Iran‘s Intelligence Organization. According to the information provided, Mir led Unit 840, a secretive division involved in foreign operations, intelligence gathering, recruitment, and planning targeted killings outside Iran.

Yazdan Mir, Iranian intelligence operative, commander of Unit 840, airstrike.

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