A senior commander in charge of dealing in oil for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Tehran on Friday, the military announces.
The strike killed Mohammad Reza Ashrafi Kahi, whom the IDF identifies as “a senior commander in the IRGC’s oil headquarters who served as the head of commerce at the headquarters.”
The military says the IRGC’s oil HQ “enables the continued activity and military buildup of the IRGC through profits from oil sales, while bypassing international sanctions.”
The IDF says the targeted commander “managed the commercial activity of the oil headquarters, estimated at billions of dollars each year, and advanced the development of the military capabilities of the IRGC and its proxies of the Iranian terror regime across the Middle East,” including Yemen’s Houthis, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Hamas.
Last week, the chief of the oil HQ, Jamshid Eshaghi, was killed in an Israeli strike.
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