Iranian Officer Killed in Tehran Was Involved in Plot to Kill Israeli Diplomat, U.S. General

An Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer shot and killed outside his Tehran home led the group’s efforts to assassinate opponents of Iran world wide, together with current failed plots to kill an Israeli diplomat, an American normal and a French mental, in accordance to folks accustomed to the matter.

The officer, Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, deliberate kidnappings and killings for an arm of the IRCG referred to as Quds Force Unit 840, the folks mentioned. They mentioned he recruited brokers to perform operations globally, together with in Colombia and Cyprus, largely in opposition to Israeli targets but in addition geared toward folks from different international locations seen as hostile by Iran.