Esmail Ghaani
Esmail Ghaani was shown on Iranian state TV attending a ceremony for slain IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan.
Esmail Ghaani is reportedly being questioned as part of Tehran’s probe into major security breaches.
Authorities are probing the possibility that Esmail Ghaani was killed or wounded in an Israeli attack last week that targeted Hashem Safieddine, a potential successor to Hezbollah’s slain leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Israeli Air Force jets conduct wide-scale strike on Hamas’s Jabaliya Battalion, killing its commander; Israeli Defense Forces Southern Commander: “We will fight in alleys; we will fight in tunnels.”
The Iranian Quds Force conducted September exercises in which Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters took part, according to a news report.
IRGC again vows vengeance against “the global arrogance and the Zionist regime.”
The Iranian regime is not expected to change its view of Israel as a foreign weed and “cancerous tumor,” but will market and adapt the theme to the changing reality and circumstances in the international arena.
Maj. Gen. Esmail Ghaani warns “major events” about to befall Israel and America • Hints “USS Bonhomme Richard” fire was Iranian retaliation.
If Israeli airstrikes did target a chemical-weapons site, then it would be a sign that the Syrian regime has returned to its wicked ways, Syria analyst Professor Eyal Zisser tells JNS.
“I think the regime now understands that they cannot attack America at will and expect to get away with it,” said U.S. special representative for Iran Brian Hook.
Israeli observers say that despite some damage to its short-term capabilities, Tehran is expected to keep up activities in Iraq and Syria, and that alongside a new clash with the United States, a parallel Israeli-Iranian shadow war will continue.
Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani succeeded Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani as deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force in 1997 when Soleimani was tapped as its chief leader.
