Iranian President Ebrahim Raisin warned today that Tehran would “take revenge” for the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel, a day after he was killed in an attack unprecedented since November 2020.
“I have no doubt we will take revenge on the blood of this great witness,” Rice told state television.
THE Colonel Sayad Hodai “was assassinated yesterday Sunday “During an armed attack by two motorcyclists on Mojahedin e Eslam Street,” the official Iranian news agency Irna reported.
He is the highest-ranking official to be assassinated in Iran following the assassination of nuclear physicist Mohsen Fahrizadeh. He was killed in November 2020 near Tehran in an attack launched against his motorcade, for which Iran blamed Israel.
“There is no doubt that the hand of global arrogance is involved in this crime,” Rice said, using the phrase to refer to the United States and its allies.
“I urge security officials to look seriously for the killer,” he said.
According to Iranian television, the “colonel’s farewell ceremony” will take place today at 17:00 (local time, 15:30 Greek time) in Tehran.
The Revolutionary Guards called Hodai a “defender of the sanctuary” and denounced him as “a terrorist act.”
The term “defender of the sanctuary” refers to those who work for the Islamic Republic of Iran in Syria and Iraq, two countries where there are shrines for Shiites and where Tehran says it has a presence through “military advisers”.
“Those who lost on the battlefield’s defenders of the sanctuary are expressing their despair in this way,” Rice said, without elaborating.
According to Iranian television, the colonel was “known” in Syria.
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