Report: Soleimani’s Successor As Iran’s Quds Force Chief Possibly Hit in Israeli Beirut Airstrike
Esmail Qaani become Quds Force chief after Qassem Soleimani was eliminated in January 2020 drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump.
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.
🔴 Israel’s Ch.12 is reporting investigations are underway to determine if IRGC Quds Force Commander Esmail Qaani was eliminated in the hit on Nasrallah’s Hezbollah successor Hashem Safieddine. He was apparently in the bunker with him at the time. pic.twitter.com/jG00jhAiYV
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) October 5, 2024
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.
Israel created this crater on October 4, when it attempted (perhaps successfully) to kill Hashem Safieddine, the presumptive successor to Hassan Nasrallah as Secretary General of Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/xYEGciX56Y
— Mike (@Doranimated) October 5, 2024
Update:
Reports on social media suggest that the Iranian state media is denying Quds Forces chief Qaani being wounded in the Israeli airstrike.
Iranian TV denies reports that Quds Force commander was hurt in Israeli strike in Beirut (via @N12News); Esmail Qaani is currently in Tehran, the report says. If Qaani is alive, we should expect him to make an appearance soon to dispel the rumors. https://t.co/cgA1Vvm1XV
— Israel Radar (@IsraelRadar_com) October 5, 2024
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I’d like to put a shock collar on any journalist covering Middle East affairs such that I can give them a strong jolt of electricity every time they use the word “elite” in reference to a military unit. This author used it and it was also used in relation to some Iraqi units during the Gulf War, you know, the ones that were eliminated by *actual* elite military forces.
There are common thugs walking the mean streets of Chicago that are more deserving of that description.
The current regime in Iran is nothing but a throwback to the 7th century, and not in a good way.
It’s easy to be an elite Iranian force when your main opponents are unarmed women and children.
I always assume that 1) it’s the label their local sources use, 2) it really just means that unit has received some training and likely fired their weapons more than once, and 3) their commanders are related to the supreme leader and therefore are politically reliable.
If you’re a terrorist located within 700NM of Israel – the combat range of an Israeli F-15E – you probably shouldn’t be making any long-term vacation or retirement plans right now. As this man could attest to if he wasn’t blown to bits at the moment, the bunker-busting GBU-28 that can be delivered by the F-15E is really, really effective at destroying bunkers.
These Iranians sure seem to be having a run of bad luck.
As Super Chicken was wont to remind his sidekick, Fred, “You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.”
There absolutely needs to be a cease fire –
Hamas and Hezbollah will agree to a cease fire as soon as they are eliminated. At that point hamas and hezbollah will cease firing .
That will be a Perfect cease fire agreement.
Even then the cease fire would only last till their children grow up.
Israel is preparing to respond to Iranian missle attack. They may attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Biden says, “No! Don’t do that!.”
Wow! Only a person who’s not in their right mind would want Iran to have nuclear weapons.
Biden’s not in his right mind. So there you go.
The JCPOA was designed to facilitate Irans Nuclear program – contrary to Obama’s statements.
The so called inspections were a joke
Biden (okay his controllers) absolutely does not want an attack on Iran before the election. That quite likely would lead to a real outbreak of war.
Kamala will not compare well against Trump as a wartime leader, I suspect, in voters’ perception.
What do we have now? Not real war with people not real being blown up by not real bombs? 🤔
If nothing else, he’s a snappy dresser.
Biden? A snappy dresser? Did I misread something?
Esmail Qaani
He used to be a snappy dresser.
Ahem…. you mean “nappy” dresser.
On the surface, a snappy dresser and a nappy dresser have much in common:
a. A snappy dresser is beautiful. So is nappy.
b. Beauty is only skin deep. So is nappy.
c. Beauty, however, serves no useful purpose, but nappy absorbs urine and feces.
Hugo Boss could not be reached for comment.
Brat uniform!
I know what I’m going as this Halloween!
“Whooooooo, scaaaaaaaary, kids!”
I’m old enough to recall a time when it was frowned upon to fire ~200 missiles at another country
Isn’t that what “an act of war” is? Or, once was?
I don’t know how Israel’s government does things, but over here, you’ve got to ask: if somebody fires 200 missiles at you, but Congress never declares war, do they still go boom?
For 45 years now, Iran literally has been chanting and predicting DEATH TO AMERICA DEATH TO ISRAEL
And they’ve been working systematically to achieve their goals.
If at this point the US military and/or the Israeli security establishment don’t have a pretty well worked out set of plans ………. then with all due respect why do we even have a US DOD or an IDF
I wonder if Israel is tired of so much Winning®️.
I’m kind of interested as to how many of those terrorists who thought the UN had their backs are reevaluating their life choices. It’s all fun and games standing in the street shooting off guns into the air until Israel gets very serious.
From several places on the interweb the “leadership” of Iran has fled the country but not to put a fine point on it so did the Nazi’s and Israel went world wide hunting them down.
Rest in Hell, assholes