TEHRAN, Iran
Speculation is rife that the
top commander of Iran's elite Quds unit is injured or dead.
Gen. Esmail Ghaani on the occasion of first anniversary of death of the force's previous head Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 1, 2021.
Unconfirmed reports claim
Esmail Ghaani was killed in in Beirut last Friday
On Monday (Oct. 7), the host
of a Palestine-themed conference in Tehran conveyed kaani's greetings to
participants.
Earlier in the day, the Deputy
Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force rejected reports
of Q'aani's death.
He was reportedly in the
capital of Lebanon last week when an Israeli aistrike is believed to have
killed Hashem Safieddine, a leading figure in Hezbollah, an Iran-backed
Lebanese militant group
Ghaani came to head the elite
Quds Force after his predecessor Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US-drone
strike in early 2020 ordered by then-president Donald Trump.
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