Revenge for the murder of a Revolutionary Guards colonel will be taken by Tehran, according to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisin. The warning comes a day after he was killed in an attack similar to the one that has not taken place since November 2020.
“I have no doubt we will take revenge on the blood of this great witness,” Rice told state television.
Colonel Sayad Hodayi was “killed yesterday Sunday during an armed attack by two motorcyclists on Mojahedin e Eslam Street,” the official Iranian news agency Irna reported.
He is the highest-ranking official to be assassinated in Iran since the assassination of nuclear physicist Mohsen Fahrizadeh. He was killed in November 2020 near Tehran in an attack launched against his motorcade, for which Iran blamed Israel.
“There is no doubt that the hand of global arrogance is involved in this crime,” Rice said, using the phrase to refer to the United States and its allies, according to AFP and the Athens-based News Agency.
“I urge security officials to look seriously for the killer,” he said.
According to Iranian television, the “colonel’s farewell ceremony” will take place today at 17:00 (local time, 15:30 Greek time) in Tehran.
The Revolutionary Guards called Hodai a “defender of the sanctuary” and denounced him as “a terrorist act.”
The term “defender of the sanctuary” refers to those who work for the Islamic Republic of Iran in Syria and Iraq, two countries where there are shrines for Shiites and where Tehran says it has a presence through “military advisers”.
“Those who lost on the battlefield’s defenders of the sanctuary are expressing their despair in this way,” Rice said, without elaborating.
According to Iranian television, the colonel was “known” in Syria.
Source: News Beast
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