Iranian TV appears to show ‘missing’ Quds Force head Qaani at memorial

Iran’s state TV has shown a person who appears to be Esmail Qaani, the top commander of Iran’s Quds Force, is seen in footage aired on Iranian state TV attending a memorial ceremony for a senior Revolutionary Guards commander killed in Lebanon.

Reports and rumors regarding Qaani’s fate had spread in recent days after he disappeared from public view. Some reported Qaani may have been killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon targeting top Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine, while other claims suggested may have had a heart attack or was being interrogated by Iran as a suspected spy.

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The footage shows Qaani at a funeral service in the Iraqi city of Karbala for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps General Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed in an Israeli air strike alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on September 27.