Iranians Cry For Revenge After Colonel Killed In Heart Of Tehran, Blaming Mossad
Tehran sacked Hassan Sayyad Khodaei at a funeral shouting “death to America, death to Israel!” The Islamic Republic cries out for revenge after the murder of this Revolutionary Guard colonel. Two men on a motorcycle got into the officer’s car in broad daylight outside his home in Tehran on Sunday afternoon, shot him five times with a muted weapon and fled across the vast expanse of the Iranian capital. “He was murdered by murderous terrorists,” President Ebrahim Raisi denounced on national television in an intervention warning that “we will have a blood feud”.
The media close to the Revolutionary Guard immediately pointed to “global arrogance” as responsible for this operation, as they refer to the United States and Israel. Majid Mir Ahmadi, secretary of the Security Council, said that “this is absolutely a murder committed by the Zionist regime and that the criminals should prepare for a hard blow to the face of the Islamic Republic.” From the Jewish state, as usual in these cases, no one has confirmed or denied this operation and Defense Secretary Benny Gantz limited himself to saying that “the State of Israel is very strong”.
Khodaei isn’t the first Iranian to be killed in attacks blamed on the Jewish state, but this assassination marks a shift in targets in what Israel calls a “war between wars” (for which the Hebrew acronym is “mabam”). The last operations of this type have targeted scientists related to the nuclear program and the latest victim was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who is considered the father of Iran’s nuclear program. Fakhrizadeh was riddled with bullets in November 2020 60 kilometers from Tehran. Iran also screamed for revenge at the time.
Added to the killings of scientists were several kidnappings and explosions against related facilities such as the nuclear program, but these kinds of attacks stopped with the arrival of Joe Biden to the White House and the restart of the dialogue over the nuclear deal that had broken Donald Trump. .
On this occasion, the killers targeted a Revolutionary Guards commander close to the also assassinated General Qassem Suleimani, the victim of a Trump-ordered drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020. red line,” according to Nour News, a website close to Iran’s Supreme Security Council, for whom the authors “didn’t calculate properly” and this “will change things.” Until now, there have been blows to the Revolutionary Guards in third countries such as Syria, but never in Iran itself.
Israeli media linked Khodaei to Revolutionary Guards Unit 840, “responsible for preparing terrorist infrastructure and planning attacks on Western targets and opposition groups outside Iran,” according to The Jerusalem Post. According to the same sources, the murdered soldier is “probably behind a series of plots against Israeli businessmen and diplomats in various countries in recent months.” The latest to come to light took place in Cyprus in October and was an assassination attempt on billionaire Teddy Sagi, a businessman believed to be the sixth richest person in Israel, the government has revealed. Among his actions, he was also identified as the mastermind behind the assassination attempt on the Israeli Consul General in Istanbul, aborted by the Mossad.
Seth Frantzman, an analyst for the same Jerusalem newspaper, believes this battle against the Revolutionary Guards is “a humiliation for the Iranians, as they have not even been able to defend their people in their own capital. According to Frantzman, ‘Iran’s image is now more fragile than before. Although the regime has come to power in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq or Syria, it seems weaker at home.
Source: La Verdad
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