The shadow war between Israel and Iran continues to escalate: the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, General Hussein Salami, has clearly and explicitly blamed Israel for the assassination of Hassan Siad Khadairi, a senior Quds Force figure, in the capital Tehran last week.
"The Khadahari shahid was particularly high because he was murdered by the wicked people of the world, by the Zionists. With the help of Allah we will continue on the path of the shahid and avenge his death," Salami said during a meeting of Tahmar revolution officers with the family of the assassinated in the capital Tehran.
"A few days ago I went to the holy city of Qum and there I heard from people calling for revenge on the blood of the martyr Khadayari. Also at my funerals the whole nation called for revenge on the blessed blood of the martyr," the commander of the Revolutionary Guards told Khadahari's family.
Salami and the family of the assassinated officer,
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 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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