IRAN’S QUDS FORCE COMMANDER QAANI ‘IN GOOD HEALTH’: DEPUTY COMMANDER

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Mon 07 October 2024:

The top Commander of Iran’s Quds Force Esmail Qaani is in “good health”, the force’s Deputy Commander Iraj Masjedi said today after Iranian security sources told Reuters he had been out of contact since strikes on Beirut last week.

“He is in good health and is carrying out his activities. Some ask us to issue a statement… there is no need for this,” Masjedi was quoted as saying by state media in reference to Qaani.

One of the officials said Qaani was in Beirut’s southern suburbs, known as the Dahiyeh, during a strike that was reported to have targeted senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine but the official said he was not meeting Safieddine.

The official said Iran and Hezbollah had not been able to contact Qaani since then.

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Israel has been hitting multiple targets in Dahiyeh as it pursues a campaign against Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah.

The second official also said Qaani had travelled to Lebanon after the killing of Nasrallah and the Iranian authorities had not been able to contact him since the strike against Safieddine, who was widely expected to be the next Hezbollah chief.

Hezbollah has made no comment so far on Safieddine.

Asked about reports that Qaani may have been killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut, Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said the results of the strikes were still being assessed.

He said that Israel had conducted an attack late last week against Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut.

“When we have more specific results from that strike, we will share it. There’s a lot of questions about who was there and who was not,” he told a briefing with reporters.

Tehran named Qaani the head of the Revolutionary Guards Corps’ overseas military-intelligence service after the United States assassinated his predecessor Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad in 2020.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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