(Reuters) -Iran’s Quds Pressure commander Esmail Qaani, who travelled to Lebanon after the killing final month of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, has not been heard from since strikes on Beirut late final week, two senior Iranian safety officers informed Reuters.
One of many officers stated Qaani was in Beirut’s southern suburbs, referred to as the Dahiyeh, throughout a strike that was reported to have focused senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine however the official stated he was not assembly Safieddine.
The official stated Iran and Hezbollah had not been capable of contact Qaani since then.
Israel has been hitting a number of targets in Dahiyeh because it pursues a marketing campaign towards Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah.
The second official additionally stated Qaani had travelled to Lebanon after the killing of Nasrallah and the Iranian authorities had not been capable of contact him because the strike towards Safieddine, who was broadly anticipated to be the following Hezbollah chief.
Hezbollah has made no remark thus far on Safieddine.
Requested about stories that Qaani might have been killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut, Israeli navy spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani stated the outcomes of the strikes have been nonetheless being assessed.
He stated that Israel had performed an assault late final week towards Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut.
“When we have more specific results from that strike, we will share it. There’s a lot of questions about who was there and who was not,” he informed a briefing with reporters.
The Quds Pressure, the abroad arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, oversees dealings with militias allied with Tehran throughout the Center East, reminiscent of Hezbollah.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Brigadier Basic Abbas Nilforoushan was killed with Nasrallah in his bunker when it was hit on Sept. 27 by Israeli bombs.
