High-ranking Iranian Guards officer assassinated
A colonel from the elite foreign operations team (Quds force) of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was shot to death by two assassins riding on a motorcycle outside his home in the capital Tehran.
Iranian state media reported that the assassination occurred in broad daylight on May 22. Colonel Sayyad Khodaei was shot five times while sitting in his car outside his home on Mojahedin-e Eslam street in Tehran, a safe area near the Iranian parliament.
Khodaei’s wife was the first to find out. The Tehran prosecutor was quickly on the scene to call for a thorough police investigation.
The IRGC called the killing of Colonel Khodaei an “act of terrorism”, and blamed “elements linked to global arrogance” for the crime, referring to the US, Israel and its allies. . Authorities describe Khodaei as a “guardian of temples,” meaning he fought with Quds forces in Syria and Iraq.
“The arch-enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran have once again shown their evil nature through the assassination of an IRGC member,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said after the announcement. Khodaei’s assassination.
According to RT, so far, no organization or individual has come forward to claim responsibility for the incident. The motive of the perpetrators is still unknown.
This is the highest-ranking assassination of a person in Tehran since the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in 2020. Earlier that same day, Quds force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani was also assassinated in an air raid. US airstrikes at Baghdad airport, Iraq.
Although the IRGC and Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced they had arrested members of an Israeli intelligence network on May 22, citing them as “attempting to steal and destroy private and public property, kidnapping and perjury”, but there is no evidence that the two incidents are related. Israel has declined to comment on both cases.
Tuan Anh
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