Hassan Sayyad Khodayari was a member of the Quds Drive, IRGC’s international arm, who served in Syria previously years.
Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says considered one of its members has been assassinated within the capital Tehran by gunmen driving on two bikes, based on the state information company IRNA.
Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem stated that the IRGC issued an announcement on Sunday saying Hassan Sayyad Khodayari was assassinated by the enemy of the revolution. He stated that Khodayari was a member of the Quds Drive (which is liable for the IRGC’s international operations) who served in Syria previously years.
The Al Jazeera correspondent stated in just a few hours we'll begin to learn about Khodayari and what he was doing in Syria, and the message behind this assassination.
“Is it, for instance, an Israeli assassination? That is what the Iranians are referring to when they're saying ‘the enemies of the revolution are behind this assassination,’” Hashem stated.
The state company described him as a “defender of the sanctuary” – a time period used to explain anybody who works on behalf of the Islamic republic in Syria or Iraq.
The IRGC, the ideological arm of Iran’s army, recognized Khodayari as a colonel.
In accordance with IRNA, Khodayari was killed by 5 bullets as he returned dwelling at about 4:00pm (11:30 GMT).
The company printed footage displaying a person slumped over within the driver’s seat of a automobile, with blood across the collar of his blue shirt and on his higher proper arm.
‘Terrorist act’
In an announcement posted on their web site, the Guard Corps additionally denounced a “terrorist act” they claimed was carried out by “components linked to international vanity”.
The Guard Corps stated they launched an investigation to determine the “aggressor or aggressors”.
In a separate growth, Iran’s state TV earlier introduced that members of an Israeli intelligence community had been discovered and arrested by the IRGC.
“Beneath the steerage of the Zionist regime’s intelligence service, the community tried to steal and destroy private and public property, kidnapping and acquiring fabricated confessions by means of a community of thugs,” the IRGC public relations service stated in an announcement.
Iran has been a key army backer of the Syrian regime. It has despatched hundreds of fighters often called the “defenders of the shrines” to Syria and Iraq to battle in opposition to the Islamic State (ISIL or ISIS) group inside the Guard’s elite Quds pressure that oversees international operations.
Assassinations
There have been assassinations of excessive profile Iranians lately.
In November 2020 a high-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated in an ambush close to Iran’s capital, Tehran.
The Jewish Chronicle reported that Fakhrizadeh was killed by a one-tonne gun smuggled into Iran in items by the Israeli intelligence company Mossad.
Citing intelligence sources, the British weekly stated a group of greater than 20 brokers, together with Israeli and Iranian nationals, carried out the ambush on Fakhrizadeh after eight months of surveillance.
In January 2020, Normal Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC’s) Quds Drive, and architect of its regional safety equipment, was killed following a US air raid at Baghdad’s worldwide airport.
The White Home and the Pentagon confirmed the killing of Soleimani in Iraq, saying the assault was carried out on the course of US President Donald Trump and was aimed toward deterring future assaults allegedly being deliberate by Iran.
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