Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters

Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters is the joint operational command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), established as the apex body coordinating all branches of Iran's military in wartime. Named after a Quranic title of the Prophet, it sits above individual IRGC service commands and directs combined-arms operations, including ballistic-missile campaigns and drone-wave offensives.

Since the Iran-Israel-US Conflict 2026 began, the headquarters has directed the named Operation True Promise 4, which by late March had reached its 70th wave of attacks. Its most significant public act came when it issued a counter-threat hours after Trump's power-grid ultimatum: if Iranian energy infrastructure were struck, all energy, IT and desalination infrastructure belonging to the US and its allies in the region would be targeted . The 70th wave continued despite the loss of four senior figures in a single week .

The headquarters now sits at the centre of a mutual-assured-destruction framework targeting civilian infrastructure across the Gulf. Its threat to hit desalination and power grids serving tens of millions of non-combatants sharpened tension around the Strait of Hormuz . Whether it can execute that threat after sustained leadership attrition remains the defining open question of the 2026 war.