Report: Soleimani’s Successor As Iran’s Quds Force Chief Possibly Hit in Israeli Beirut Airstrike

A top general of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and chief of the elite terrorist Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, may have been wounded in a recent Israeli airstrike on a Hezbollah terrorist target in Beirut, Israeli media reports suggest.

Qaani was appointed as the chief of Quds Force in earlier 2020, after his successor, Qassem Soleimani, was eliminated in a drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump.

Qaani may have been wounded in Friday’s Israeli airstrike which targeted Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s likely successor, Hashem Safieddine, in a terrorist stronghold in southern Beirut.

Safieddine’s fate remains unclear since Friday. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is assessing the outcome of the strike.

The Jerusalem Post reports:

The possibility that Esmail Qaani, the commander of the Quds Force in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was wounded in an Israeli bombing in Beirut is being investigated, N12 reported on Saturday.Qaani oversees Iran’s terrorist and proxy affiliates in the region, N12 reported, noting that he may have been hit in an air force strike in southern Beirut, in the same attack that targeted Hashem Safieddine, Nasrallah’s presumed successor.

Update:

Reports on social media suggest that the Iranian state media is denying Quds Forces chief Qaani being wounded in the Israeli airstrike.

 

Tags: Hezbollah, IDF, Iran, Iran-Israel War 2024, Israel, Lebanon, Qassem Soleimani

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