Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaï, senior officials of the revolution guards, was killed by bullets, in a secure district of Tehran.
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A senior Revolutionary Guard officials, the ideological army of Iran, was assassinated on May 22 in Tehran. In their press release, the guards attributed the assassination to foreign “terrorists” affiliated with the enemies of the Islamic revolution. In a speech to journalists in Tehran, the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raïssi, promised to “avenge” this murder, without appointing manager. But an article on the site of the Arabic-speaking Arabic-speaking television channel, belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran, imputes this assassination to Israel which, according to this media, is “worried about the reinforced presence of Iran in Syria” .
According to the guards’ press release, the man killed on Sunday is Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaï, a “mausoleum defender”. The formula which refers to the Sayyida Zaynab mosque, in Damascus, a high place of Shiite pilgrimage, designates the Iranian and Afghans soldiers sent to Syria to help the close ally of Tehran, the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. From the start of the Syrian revolution in 2011, the Islamic Republic of Iran presented its military and strategic support to Damascus as an aid to fight “terrorists”. The emergence of Islamic State fighters in 2014 facilitated Tehran’s task to justify his presence in Syria.
Hassan Sayyad Khodaï was killed in broad daylight, in front of his home, by two men on a motorcycle who approached his car and who pulled five bullets, Iranian official media reported. The man’s home is located in a neighborhood close to the Iranian parliament in the east of the capital – a place a priori very secure. The photos published on Iranian agencies and newspapers show a man sitting in the driver’s seat behind the wheel of an Iranian manufacturing kia pride and wearing a seat belt, in blood after bullet injuries. The Iranian media indicate that his wife was the first person to find his body. The security forces are looking for the assassins who escaped.
compared to two legends
The exact functions of Colonel Sayyad Khodai remain unknown. But on Monday, the former Israeli military intelligence boss Amos Yadlin compared it to two legends of Iranian forces in the Middle East: Imad Moughnieh, the old brain of the Lebanese Hezbollah special operations, murdered by Israel and the United States In Damascus in 2008, and Ghassem Soleimani, the former chief of force al-Quds (a branch of the revolution guards, responsible for extraterritorial operations), killed by the United States in Baghdad in 2020.
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