Communications with Iran’s Quds Force chief Esmail Qaani, who traveled to Lebanon after Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah was killed last month in an Israeli airstrike, have been lost since the strikes on Beirut this week. last year, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters on Sunday.
One official said Qaani was in the suburbs of Beirut when Thursday’s strike took place, reportedly targeting Nasrallah’s follower Hashem Safi al-Din, but the official clarified that Qaani had not met Safi al -Din.
The official said Iran and Hezbollah have not been able to contact Qaani since then.
Israel is hitting several targets in the southern suburbs in a campaign it is launching against the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah group.
The second official said Qaani went to Lebanon after Nasrallah’s assassination, and Iranian authorities lost contact with him since the strike allegedly targeting Safi al-Din.
Hezbollah has not yet commented on what happened to Safi al-Din.
The idea came from Iran after a long delay of questions spread in the Iranian media, in an attempt to explain the absence of the country’s highest general, the successor of the late Qassem Soleimani.
It was a newspaper report “New York Times” The American newspaper pointed out that officials in Iran have not yet given a definite answer to the question.
The Quds Force monitors the activities of armed groups supported by Iran in the region, such as Lebanese Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen, and groups in Iraq and Syria, along with Hamas in Gaza, and is called the “Axis of Resistance” to them.
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newspaper named “Jerusalem PostAccording to Israel’s Channel 12, on Saturday, investigations are underway regarding the possibility of injuring the head of the Quds Force in the Israeli attack on Beirut.
The Israeli channel said Qaani may have been “injured” in the Israeli airstrike south of Beirut, which it said was aimed at the new leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Hashem Safi al-Din.
Qaani, 67, was last seen in public at Hezbollah’s offices in Tehran, two days after Israel killed the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in Lebanon, according to photos released by Iranian media.
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Qaani was conspicuously absent when Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei led prayers last Friday.
Three Iranian officials, according to the New York Times, said Qaani “traveled to Beirut last week to meet with senior Hezbollah officials and to help the group overcome a wave of Israeli attacks in Lebanon.”
The local Iranian website Tabnak previously said: “Public opinion is waiting for news indicating that our general is alive and in good health,” while another news website, Shahr Khabar, published the biography of Qaani, who spent decades of service in the ranks of the world. Revolutionary Guard.
Although the website said:International IranTabnak pointed to the news that a Quds Force commander had been injured or killed in an Israeli attack on southern Lebanon at dawn on Friday, and the site criticized the lack of official comment, saying “if it’s OK, the best way. to confirm that it is safe to release a video of him in the media.
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2024-10-06 22:24:37
