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Two Iran aerospace officials ‘martyred while on mission’
The Fars news agency reported Monday (June 13), two Iranian aerospace officials, including a member of the Revolutionary Guards’ Corps, were “martyred while on mission” in separate incidents inside the country.
Fars said, quoting a Guards statement that Ali Kamani, a member of the Guards aerospace division was “martyred” in the city of Khomein in Iran’s central Markazi province.
It added that in a separate incident, Mohammad Abdoos, 33, an aerospace staff member, died in the northern Semnan province on Sunday while on a “mission.”
No further details were given on the men or of the circumstances of their deaths.
According to state news agency IRNA, two weeks ago, Col. Ali Esmailzadeh, a commander of the Guards’ external operations unit, the Quds Force, died “in an accident in his home.”
On May 22, Guards Col. Sayyad Khodai, 50, was killed outside his home in the east of the Iranian capital after attackers on motorbikes shot him five times, citing the AFP, the Arabnews reported.
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The Guards accused “Zionists” of being behind the high-profile assassination of Khodai and vowed revenge.
The New York Times later reported that Israel told the United States that it was behind the killing of Khodai. The US daily cited an anonymous “intelligence official briefed on the communications.”
Iran’s state television has said that Khodai was a member of the Quds Force and that he was “known” in Syria, where Iran has acknowledged deploying “military advisers.”
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The Guards described Khodai as a “defender of the sanctuary,” a term used for those who work on behalf of Tehran in Syria or Iraq.
It should be noted that the Guards are designated as a terrorist group by the United States.
Source: arabnews
