Iran’s state information company stated: “Sayyad Khodai was assassinated throughout a gun assault.”
Tehran, Iran:
Gunmen shot useless a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday within the east of the capital Tehran, state information company IRNA reported.
“Sayyad Khodai… was assassinated throughout a gun assault carried out by two motorcylists in Tehran’s Mohahedin-e Eslam Road,” IRNA stated.
The company described him as a “defender of the sanctuary” — a time period used to explain anybody who works on behalf of the Islamic republic in Syria or Iraq.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the ideological arm of Iran’s navy, recognized Khodai as a colonel.
In a press release posted on their web site, the Guards additionally denounced a “terrorist act” they claimed was carried out by “parts linked to world conceitedness” — a reference to the USA and its allies.
The Guards stated they launched an investigation to establish the “aggressor or aggressors”.
In line with IRNA, Khodai was killed by 5 bullets as he returned dwelling at round 4:00 pm (1130 GMT).
The company printed footage exhibiting a person slumped over within the driver’s seat of a automobile, with blood across the collar of his blue shirt and on his proper higher arm.
He’s strapped in together with his seat belt and the entrance window on the passenger facet has been shot out.
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