
Tehran, Iran – Senior Iranian officials have promised to take revenge for the assassination of a senior member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as a large funeral procession was held for him in Tehran.
Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, identified as a colonel with the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the elite Guards, was returning home in southern Tehran on Sunday afternoon when he was killed by five gunshots fired by two assailants on a motorcycle who then fled the scene.