Iran investigates the death of a member of the Revolutionary Guards and denies his “assassination”
Members of the elite Revolutionary Guards Unit on September 22, 2013, in Tehran.
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Iran denied on Friday June 3 the assassination of a member of the Revolutionary Guards, as certain media of the Iranian opposition based abroad had affirmed.
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With our correspondent in Tehran
,
Siavosh Ghazi
"A member of the Revolutionary Guards died a few days ago in an accident in his house," the official Irna news agency said, adding that it was not an "
assassination
".
Colonel Ali Esmailzadeh was assassinated in Karaj, near Tehran.
The Tasnim news agency, close to the Revolutionary Guards, for its part affirmed that Colonel Ali Esmaïlzadeh “
had fallen from the terrace of his house
”.
On May 22, Guards Colonel Sayyad Khodai, 50, was shot and killed by two motorcyclists as he was returning home in the east of the capital, Tehran.
He was a member of the Quds Force, the external operations arm of the Revolutionary Guards.
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He had served in Syria, in particular to provide assistance to Lebanese Hezbollah to develop its missile program.
Iran accused Israel of being behind the assassination, saying it would avenge it.
Tension continues to mount between Iran and Israel over Tehran's nuclear program and the Iranian presence in Syria.
Israeli officials keep insisting that they will act against Tehran's nuclear program, while Iran threatens to react by taking aim in the event of an Israeli attack.
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