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Video appears to show Iran’s Quds Force general at Tehran demo after reports he was killed in an Israeli strike

24 June 2025, 10:46 pm 1 Edit

Video on social media appears to show the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force Gen. Esmail Qaani, mingling with crowds at a pro-regime demonstration in Tehran today.

The New York Times reported early in the war, without citing souirces, that Qaani was among the Iranian military leaders killed in Israeli strikes, although the IDF had not claimed to have targeted him.

Qaani is in charge of Iran’s proxies in the region.

It’s not the first time he has been falsely reported dead in an Israeli strike. In October, he was widely said to have been killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut that killed senior Hezbollah leader Hashem Safieddine.

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