Iran’s Revolutionary Guards accused “Zionists” of shooting dead a colonel in Tehran earlier this month, days after Israel reportedly told the US it was behind the killing.
Guards Colonel Sayyad Khodaei, 50, was fatally shot on May 22 outside his home in the east of the Iranian capital by assailants on motorcycles. He was hit with five bullets, according to official media.
It was the most high-profile killing inside Iran since the November 2020 murder of top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh — an act Tehran also blamed on Israel.
Khodaei was killed “by the most vicious people, the Zionists, and God willing, we will avenge his death,” head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Major General Hossein Salami says during a visit to his family, according to the Guards’ Sepah News website.
“The enemy pursued him from the heart of the White House and Tel Aviv for months and years, door to door and alley to alley to martyr him,” Salami adds.
The New York Times reported last week that Israel has told the United States that the Jewish state was behind the killing of Khodaei. The US daily cited an anonymous “intelligence official briefed on the communications.”
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