Who the fuck is Kelly Ng, the author of this piece?
Anyway, typical BiBiC trash that wants to paint the guy as some sort of acceptable target!
Got to get the "Hezbollah that are sworn to Israel's destruction" in, and that "wipe the Zionist regime off the map" canard which I remember Juan Cole saying was purely a western translation "because no such idiom exists in Persian.”
That was back in the days of Ahmadinejad.

A few quotes from this bollox:

"Salami, who was 65, was known for taking a hardline stance against Iran's rivals, including Israel and the US."

"Since the 2000s, he has been sanctioned by the UN Security Council and the US for his involvement in Iran's nuclear and military programmes.

Salami had boasted of Iran's military capabilities, at one point declaring that the country was "on the verge of becoming a world power".
He had welcomed the prospect of military conflict with Israel and the US. Following an Israeli strike against Iranian targets in Syria in 2019, Salami vowed to "wipe the Zionist regime" off the political map."

"Israel says Tehran's rhetoric makes Iran an existential threat. Israel and its allies have also criticised Iran's build-up of proxy forces in the region, including the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah that are sworn to Israel's destruction."

"Salami and other senior officers of the Revolutionary Guards routinely advise Iran's supreme leader.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, the group exerts influence by providing money, weapons, technology, training and advice to allied governments.

Some of the Revolutionary Guards' most elite members operate its shadowy overseas operations arm, the Quds Force, which has ties with armed groups in the region, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, and Yemen."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyg0yywr4no