The New York Times and Washington Post obituaries will presumably describe him as an austere religious scholar, as they did the Caliph of ISIS, with an “avuncular smile” who liked “Persian poetry”, as they did Khamenei, but he’s gone all the same and he won’t be coming back to get his own podcast on MSNOW or the Tucker Carlson Network.
“Yesterday. the leader of the unit who attempted to assassinate President Trump has been hunted down and killed. Iran tried to kill President Trump, and President Trump got the last laugh,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stated.
“Yesterday, the leader of the unit who attempted to assassinate President Trump was hunted down and killed. Iran tried to kill President Trump, and President Trump got the last laugh.” –@SECWAR🔥 pic.twitter.com/V0KATJJ751
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 4, 2026
According to Israeli sources, the terrorist leader in question was one Rahman Makadam.
Israel has eliminated Rahman Makadam, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Special Operations Department, according to a report by Channel 12.
Makadam was reportedly responsible for the assassination attempt on Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The report added that Trump was informed in recent hours by Israeli officials of Makadam’s killing.
I’ve tried to locate further information on the subject, but every time I try to type in possible spellings for Makadam’s name in Hebrew, Google gives me results for Rachel McAdams, who is an actress, and presumably not an Iranian terror leader. Browsing Israeli media like Maariv and Ynet reminded me that they’re a waste of time, but Makadam apparently headed the Special Operations wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps which is basically a Shite ISIS if ISIS ran a country. The good news is he’s gone. The bad news is he’ll be unavailable to appear at the DNC.
