File- Esmail Qaani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force the foreign arm of The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, also known as the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
Esmail Qaani, head of Iran’s Quds Force and the ‘man with nine lives’ was supposed to have been executed on Saturday in Tehran for being an Israeli spy but according to an unconfirmed report from Israel he escaped there and is safe . The report did not disclose his whereabouts in Israel nor how he got there .
But this is the man who took over as the commands all Iran’s proxies in the Middle East , Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen , Hamas in Gaza and the Iran backed militia’s in Iraq , after Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in Iraq in 2020 by the US
Esmail Qaani, the commander of the Quds Force (R) with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Qaani was reportedly with Khamanei just before he was assassinated but left minutes before the Israeli strike
Qaani is reportedly behind the killing of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut , Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Ayatollah Ali Khamanei in Tehran. He reportedly disclosed to Israel their exact locations and managed to escape before they were all killed
IRGC Quds Force headquarters bombed
In one of the most significant strikes of the current war, the IDF on Saturday night announced it had destroyed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force headquarters.
Also on Saturday Israel targeted Quds Force commander in Lebanon in a strike at the hotel where he was hiding after fleeing from south Lebanon. 4 were killed in the attack .
Several dozen Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officers have fled Beirut on March 6 fearing they will be targeted, two senior Israeli defense officials and a third source with knowledge of the situation told Axios
The Iranian officers were mostly were working as military advisers to Hezbollah with significant influence over the group’s operations
The role of the feared and notorious Quds Force has been to destabilize the entire region and foment anti-Sunni movements in several countries.
Mossad may be the only organization that may know where he is now and this may be its best kept secret for now .
This is a developing story more to follow as more details become available.
