A source in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards revealed today (Friday) that the commander of the Air Force and Space Forces of the Revolutionary Guards, responsible for the Iranian ballistic program, including the production of “UAVs,” Major General Amir Ali Hajizda, was the target of an explosion yesterday in Perchin. , Southeast of Tehran.
A loud explosion was heard in eastern Tehran, heavy smoke billowing over the area
According to the source, the explosive device exploded near his vehicle as he was leaving the military base. In the incident, as we reported yesterday, an engineer in the Iranian Ministry of Defense, Officer Ihsan Qadbagi, who accompanied him and another attendant was killed.
The Iranian blast: An engineer in the Iranian Ministry of Defense was killed
The Iranian Ministry of Defense confirmed that “an accident occurred on Wednesday evening in one of the research units of the Ministry of Defense in the Perchin area. This led to the death of engineer Ihsan Qadbagi and the injury of one of his colleagues.” The Ministry of Defense did not provide further details about the “accident”.
The statement from the Iranian Ministry of Defense came hours after the official Iranian news agency (IRNA) quoted an “unknown source” as saying that a “work accident” occurred in Perchin and led to the death of a man.
The incident comes days after Revolutionary Guards Colonel Said Khodai was shot dead near his home in Tehran in an operation that authorities claim is behind Israel and as reported in the New York Times. Khodai was responsible for supplying missiles and UAV technology to Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon, including the construction of weapons factories.
The New York Times reported that Israel had informed Washington that it was responsible for the assassination of Hodai as a warning message to Iran, for the cessation of the activity of Unit 840, which is responsible for planning and carrying out attacks against Jews and Israelis abroad.
The American leak came after an alleged Israeli leak to Politico about President Joe Biden’s final decision not to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations, which is one of the Iranian conditions in Vienna’s negotiations on the nuclear program.
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett congratulated President Biden on his Twitter account for the right decision, adding that he had already informed him of this last month (April).
This war of leaks, which raised questions about whether Washington gave Tel Aviv a green light for the assassination of Hodai, caused confusion in Tehran, which together blamed Washington and Tel Aviv for being behind the assassination.
Signs of escalation of tensions between Tehran and Washington began to emerge against the backdrop of the deadlock in Vienna and the failure to reach an agreement. Yesterday, Washington imposed sanctions on an oil smuggling network linked to Quds Force and Hezbollah, and boycotted oil shipments to Greece, in a move that sparked a diplomatic crisis between Tehran and Athens.
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