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Tehran: The killers escaped unknown
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A member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been shot dead on the street in Tehran.
According to state broadcaster Irib, the assassination attempt on Hassan Sayad Khodayar took place on Sunday in a district in the south-east of the capital.
The victim was therefore a member of the Quds Brigades.
The elite unit is considered the shield and sword of the ruling ayatollahs and specializes in foreign operations.
The Shiite shadow fighters have several thousand men under arms.
Since it was founded in the early 1980s, the Quds Brigade fighters have been active in many countries, including Lebanon, where they helped build Hezbollah's guerrillas into a powerful force.
Five shots at a small Kia Pride car
According to Iranian media, the attackers arrived on a motorcycle in front of Hassan Sayad Khodayar's house, which, according to the AP news agency, is located in a particularly secured part of Tehran.
There he is said to have been sitting in his small Kia Pride car – and been riddled with five shots.
The sequence of events sounds familiar.
High-ranking military personnel and scientists who work on the nuclear program die again and again in Iran.
In 2020, nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was hit.
The Iranian regime blames his death and that of many others on Israel.
Israel has been considered Iran's archenemy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Again and again there are reports of the arrests, arrests and executions of alleged agents who are accused of cooperation with the Mossad or the US foreign intelligence service CIA.
The Iranian information cannot be independently verified.
After the assassination of Hassan Sayad Khodayar, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards also reported that they had arrested suspected members of a network of the Israeli secret service Mossad.
According to the IRGC website, "rioters" believed to be working for the Mossad in Iran have been arrested.
They are accused of kidnapping and theft, among other things.
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