Death of a Revolutionary Guard: “I have no doubt that the blood of this great martyr will be avenged”

PublishedMay 23, 2022, 9:18 am

The Iranian president spoke the day following the death of Colonel Sayyad Khodai in Tehran. A death that occurred in an unprecedented attack since November 2020.

Sayyad Khodai was assassinated in an armed attack by two motorcyclists on Sunday in Tehran.

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Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday that the murder of an officer of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of Iran, would be “avenged”. “I have no doubt that the blood of this great martyr will be avenged,” the Iranian president said on state television. Colonel Sayyad Khodaï was shot and killed on Sunday by two motorcyclists in the east of the capital, according to official sources.

The assassination of this important figure comes a year and a half following that of nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. He was killed in November 2020, near the capital, in an attack on his convoy attributed by Iran to Israel. “There is no doubt that the hand of global arrogance can be seen in this crime,” Raisi said, an expression referring to the United States and its allies, in the official phraseology of the Islamic Republic.

The “farewell ceremony” to the colonel will take place on Monday.

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“I insist on the serious prosecution (of the murderer) by security officials,” added Raisi, who is to fly to Oman, in the Gulf, for an official visit at the invitation of Sultan Haitham. According to television, the “farewell ceremony” for the colonel will take place at 5 p.m. (2:30 p.m. in Switzerland) in Tehran.

The Guardians presented Sayyad Khodaï as a “defender of the sanctuary” and denounced a “terrorist act”. This term refers to anyone working on behalf of the Islamic Republic in Syria and Iraq, two countries with Shiite places of worship and where Iran claims to be present through what it presents as “military advisers”. .

“Those who lost on the spot [de bataille] face of the defenders of the sanctuary thus show their despair”, indicated Raïsi, without further details. According to television, the colonel was “known” in Syria.

(AFP)