Sayad Khodai, a senior figure in the elite Quds force, was reportedly shot dead in his car by two gunmen.
A colonel in the powerful Iranian Revolutionary Guards has been shot dead in a rare assassination in Tehran.
Two gunman on a motorbike are reported to have shot Colonel Sayad Khodai five times in a car outside his home. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack, and a manhunt is under way for the gunmen. It is the biggest security breach in Iran since 2020 when a leading nuclear scientist was killed, the BBC's Middle East Editor Sebastian Usher says.Colonel Khodai was a senior member of the elite Quds Force, a shadowy external arm of the Revolutionary Guards that carries out operations abroad. The United States accuses the force of supporting terrorist organisations and being responsible for attacks across the Middle East.
As news of the assassination broke, Iranian state news reported that Revolutionary Guards had exposed and arrested a network of Israeli spies. There has been no official comment from Israel.by a US air strike in Iraq. He spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East as head of the Quds Force, and his death marked a major escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran.in Tehran.
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