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Israeli Embassies Raise Alert Levels Following Assassination of IRGC Officer in Tehran
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by JNS.org
Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) gather around the coffins fellow IRGC members who were killed by a suicide car bomb, during their funerals in Isfahan, Iran, Feb. 16, 2019. Photo: Morteza Salehi/ Tasnim News Agency/via Reuters.
JNS.org – Israel raised the alert level of its embassies worldwide on Monday, after an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps officer was shot dead in Tehran by unknown assailants the day before.
The two assassins fired five bullets at the officer before fleeing the scene on a motorcycle, Iranian state media reported. Though there is no evidence linking Israel to the incident and Iran has not accused it of involvement, Israel is still concerned about the possibility of Iranian retaliation, according to Kan.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi eulogized the slain officer, Col. Hassan Sayad Khodayari, and vowed that Iran would “deal with this crime with great vigor.”
In an official statement, Iran condemned what it described as “an act of terrorism on Sunday afternoon in Tehran and the martyr’s death of an IRGC colonel,” calling it “the crossing of a red line that was committed without prior thought about the consequences. The perpetrators of this crime will pay a heavy price.”
Khodayari was active in the IRGC’s overseas unit, the Quds Force, and was involved in multiple attempts to launch terror attacks on Israeli civilians, in Kenya, Colombia, Cyprus and in Turkey, according to Kan.
It was Khodayari who had tasked Mansour Rassouli with carrying out the assassination of an Israeli diplomat in Istanbul, according to the report. Israeli media reported in late April that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency had thwarted the plot, which also included the assassination of a US general in Germany and a Jewish journalist in France. According to the report, Rassouli was interrogated by Israeli agents in his home in Tehran.
Rassouli told his interrogators he had received $150,000 from the IRGC to prepare for the mission, and was to receive an additional $1 million after carrying out the assassinations, according to London-based Iran International.
