Hassan Said Khadairi, a Quds Force colonel of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who was killed in front of his home in Tehran earlier this week, headed a unit that planned to assassinate an American general in Europe as well as the Jewish philosopher Bernard Levy, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
According to the report, Khadiri commanded Unit 840, the assassination and shielding cell of the Quds Force, which had previously carried out murders of regime opponents on European soil.
The funeral of Colonel Hassan Siad Houdai in Tehran, Photo: None
The U.S. report linked Khadairi to a plot recently uncovered by the news site Iran International in which Quds Force planned to use Iranian criminals operating in Europe to assassinate a number of regime-marked figures.
According to the revelation, the force planned to eliminate an American general in Germany, an Israeli diplomat in Turkey and the French Jewish philosopher Bernard Levy, who had previously also written for "Israel Today."
The American newspaper linked the Iranian commander who was also assassinated to an assassination attempt on an Israeli businessman in Cyprus last year, a plot uncovered by local police, which created three foreign nationals planning to harm Israelis.
The newspaper also reported that no action was taken by the unit under Khadairi that succeeded in harming the targets or carrying out a successful assassination.
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