The Shadow War in Iran: “The feeling is that Israel has set up a large-scale organization in Tehran and is freely conducting its activities,” a senior Iranian politician claimed in an interview published today (Tuesday) in the Financial Times. He added that “Israel appears to be intent on harming Iran’s security image – with the aim of harming the regime’s image in the eyes of Iranian citizens.”
As you may recall, a sequence of deaths was recorded at the top of the Revolutionary Guards. When the first of them occurred last May, when Hassan Siad Khoudayari was shot dead. According to reports in Iran, two assassins riding a motorcycle shot the senior officer five times while sitting in his car near his house on Mujahideen-i-Islam Street in eastern Tehran.
About a month later, two members of the Revolutionary Guards’ aerospace unit were killed during a mission and in a “car accident” in the northeastern city of Khomeini. According to the agency, Ali Kamani was killed in a car accident, while the other member of the aerospace unit, Muhammad Abdus, was killed during a mission.
A day later, the Iranian-affiliated Iran International website published new details about the circumstances of the two’s deaths. According to the report, the two were involved in the development of weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon, and that the cause of death was not an accident.
The deaths of the three join the death of the missile engineer Dr. Ayub Antzari, apparently due to deliberate poisoning. According to reports, the engineer was invited to dinner, and when he returned home his condition worsened and he died in hospital. At the same time, the death of Kamran Malapur, an Iranian nuclear scientist who worked at the Natanz facility, was reported.