Report: Iran Interrogating Top General Over Israeli Strikes That Dismantled Hezbollah Leadership
Arab News Outlets: “Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Brigadier-General Esmail Qaani is alive and currently under investigation in Iran.”
Iran is reportedly interrogating one of its top generals after recent Israeli strikes nearly dismantled the command structure of the regime-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, Arab and Israeli media reports suggest.
The chief of the Quds Force, Iranian regime’s global terrorist arm, Esmail Qaani, has been taken into custody after an Israeli airstrike on Friday targeted and likely killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s projected successor, Hashem Safieddine.
According to some Arab media reports, Qaani may have even suffered a ‘heart attack’ during the ‘interrogation.’
“An unconfirmed report from Sky News Arabic claims that top commander of Iran’s Quds Force Esmail Qaani suffered a heart attack during an interrogation conducted by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps over his potential involvement in Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah late last month,” The Times of Israel reported Thursday.
Qaani was promoted to head the Quds Forces in 2020 after his predecessor Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump.
Reports about the possible fate of the top Islamic Guard (IRGC) general come two months after Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was eliminated in an alleged Israeli strike in Iran. The Hamas terror chief was staying at an IRGC safe house in Tehran when the deadly blast took place.
The Jerusalem Post reports Thursday:
Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Brigadier-General Esmail Qaani is alive and currently under investigation in Iran, the Middle East Eye reported on Thursday, citing several sources.
His whereabouts have been unknown since Israel’s Saturday strike in Beirut that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s presumed successor, Hashem Safieddine.
According to the report, the Islamic Republic is currently researching security breaches, with ten sources from Beirut, Baghdad, and Tehran telling the UK-based news outlet that both Qaani and his team were under isolation while under examination.
In addition, on Thursday, Israeli media, citing Sky News, reported that Qaani had suffered from a heart attack during interrogations.
“The Iranians have serious suspicions that the Israelis have infiltrated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, especially those working in the Lebanese arena, so everyone is currently under investigation,” a source told the Middle East Eye.
However, the report also cited a source linked to Hezbollah, who alleged unequivocally that the breach was “100 percent Iranian.”
The Quds Force chief has not been seen since last Friday, fueling speculations that the top Iranian general was either seriously injured or killed in the Israeli strike on the Hezbollah terrorist stronghold in southern Beirut.
Qaani was reportedly present nearby when Hezbollah’s likely next chief, Safieddine, was targeted last week in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant recently indicated that Safieddine may have been killed in that strike.
Sky News Arabic claims that Esmail Qaani, the top commander of Iran’s Quds Force suffered a heart attack while being interrogated by the IRGC over Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah.
Or should I say, "heart attack"
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) October 10, 2024
IDF eliminates Hezbollah commanders in southern Lebanon
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminated two senior Hezbollah terror commanders in southern Lebanon.
In a joint operation by the Israeli military and the air force (IAF), Hezbollah commander, Ahmad Moustafa al-Haj Ali, was eliminated. He was responsible for firing hundreds of rockets and missiles on northern Israel since October 7, 2023.
“The IAF and IDF artillery struck and eliminated the terrorist Ahmad Moustafa al-Haj Ali, commander of the Houla Front in the Hezbollah terrorist organization, who was responsible for hundreds of missile and anti-tank missile attacks toward the Kiryat Shmona area,” the Israeli military said in a statement Thursday.
#BREAKING: IDF confirms it eliminated terrorist Ahmad Moustafa al-Haj Ali, Hezbollah’s Houla Front commander responsible for hundreds of missile attacks on Kiryat Shmona, and Mohammad Ali Hamdan, Hezbollah’s anti-tank commander in Meiss El Jabal. Strikes also targeted weapons… pic.twitter.com/ciKvnMe9jZ
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 10, 2024
Another Hezbollah commander, Mohammad Ali Hamdan, was taken out by the IDF in a separate strike. “In another strike, the IDF eliminated Mohammad Ali Hamdan, commander of Hezbollah’s anti-tank unit in the Meiss El Jabal area, who was responsible for extensive anti-tank missile attacks toward communities in northern Israel,” the military disclosed.
The IDF targeted Hezbollah’s command structure as the Iran-backed terrorist group continued to fire rockets on northern Israeli cities and towns. “The latest Hezbollah rocket barrage on northern Israel’s Galilee region saw some 50 projectiles fired at civilian areas, the Israeli military said in a statement, adding that a number of impacts were identified yet there were no early reports of casualties,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported Thursday.
IDF continues ground operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon
As the Israeli ground operation entered its tenth day, the IDF continued to eliminate Hezbollah’s terrorist fighting force and military buildup along the country’s border with Lebanon.
“The IDF is continuing limited, localized, targeted operations against Hezbollah attack infrastructure and terrorists in southern Lebanon,” the military revealed Thursday. “Over the past day, IDF soldiers eliminated numerous terrorists in various close-quarters encounters and aerial strikes. The forces also located and destroyed hundreds of weapons, including anti-tank missile and rocket launchers aimed at civilian communities in northern Israel, as well as underground terrorist infrastructure.”
Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari in southern Lebanon explains how Hezbollah uses civilian homes to store weapons and other military gear. Hagari shows some of the different types of weapons and other military equipment seized by troops in the home. pic.twitter.com/XxYEYVHygM
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 10, 2024
Israeli Air Force hits more terror targets in Lebanon, Gaza
Israeli fighter jets hit further terrorist targets in Gaza and Lebanon. “Over the past day, the IAF struck more than 110 Hezbollah terrorist targets in Lebanon and approximately 30 Hamas terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip,” the military said Thursday. “The strikes targeted terrorist cells, weapons storage facilities, launchers, terrorist infrastructure sites, observation posts, and underground terror infrastructure.”
The Israeli Air Force has launched more than 1,100 airstrikes in southern Lebanon that were carried out in coordination with ground forces, amid an ongoing offensive against Hezbollah launched at the end of last month, the military says.
These airstrikes, carried out by fighter… pic.twitter.com/wUHLbmovDr
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) October 9, 2024
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Memo to regime loyalists in Iran: this is what you can expect if you take a high-ranking job trying to eliminate Israel.
Give Israel the motivation to dismantle your terror network, and your bosses will dismantle you — even if you’re not a Mossad agent.
Which is one of the reasons Israel probably released the rumor that they had moles inside the Iranian government. A mole hunt will do more damage than a JDAM when it comes to well-protected or well-hidden targets.
No one is going to stick their neck out to try and protect another government flunky in a regime of this type. Once accused, you are on your own. Israel may even be able to plant evidence remotely on computers to make certain folks look guilty, as if they had been communicating with contacts outside the government.
Devious. I like it!
I admit that I am hoping that Brigadier-General Esmail Qaani IS NOT the leak/mole/Israeli information source in the Iranian high command.
a) if he is NOT, then the true mole will still be operating, and
b) if he is NOT, it will become known in the Iranian leadership that this was a mistaken purge and their loyalty to the regime might be shaken once they realize that a similar mistake may target them.
Subotai Bahadur
Maybe Israel framed Esmail Qaani?
If I were in the Mossad, I’d be finding ways in my Iranian network to suggest (just suggest, that’s all) that Qaani is not Mossad’s guy. It’s some guy named ‘Mohammad’…
I think Mossad might be having a little “fun” making the Iranians think they have a serious security issue, especially if Mossad hasn’t been able to penetrate Quds.
A little paranoia can go a long way to reducing the enemy’s command structure.
My gut tells me that the person(s) who informed the Israelis have already been extracted and are in hiding.
I suspect Qaani is under arrest only because the Iranian leadership is so paranoid, they are beginning to see everyone as a possible traitor.
If so, that is not a bad thing.
Subotai Bahadur
I hope you are right.
So… a heart attack taking the form of a 9mm round to the back of the head?
Worst case of suicide I have ever seen.
Jeffrey Epstein enters the chat.
I bet that Hillary will will pay come judgement day for all those murders?
He accidentally cut his own throat while shaving, when he fell out of a window onto an exploding bomb…
He probably took a sledgehammer to the chest, or a live wire.
Bitten by the notorious Bullet Ant
That would be a cerebral hemorrhage. Heart attacks like this usually involve car batteries and jumper cables. 😉
Hitler also thought all his generals were out to get him near the end. This is simply the natural cycle of despotic regimes. I suspect there’s going to be a lot more of this in Tehran in the coming weeks.
Reminds me of the classic Jefferson Airplane, ‘Somebody To Love’
When the troops are found to be full of spies
And an enemy trick kills a couple thousand guys
Don’t you want somebody to blame?
Don’t you need somebody to blame?
Wouldn’t you love somebody to blame?
You better find somebody to blame.
https://genius.com/Jefferson-airplane-somebody-to-love-lyrics
Omg Omg Omg I just had an idea!!! How about return the captives, stop firing rockets and drones and missiles, and then let’s all live in peace. I think that that’d be greaaat.
How about we divide Iran into sectors.
Those who want to be ruled by ayatollahs live in one sector.
Those who want a king can live in another sector.
Those who want to live in a Western-style representative govt can live in a different sector
Perhaps more options as well
And then? Everybody can just leave everybody else the fu*k alone.