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Awarded to civilians and all ranks of the British armed forces, for actions not in the presence of an enemy.

Key Iranian commanders have also been killed, including the chief of staff of the armed forces, and the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

The name of each student joining the U.S. armed forces was read aloud to applause.

Iranian state television reported that the leader of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Hossein Salami was killed as well as chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, General Mohammad Bagheri.

Salami first joined the Revolutionary Guards - a powerful branch of the Iranian armed forces - in 1980 during the Iran-Iraq war and became deputy commander in 2009, then commander a decade later.