Enteraz, a Ph.D. holder in aerospace engineering, allegedly helped develop military drones and missiles. Circulating reports on his death contradict, with state news claiming that he died in the hospital because of an undisclosed disease, while other sources claimed that he was poisoned.
Before that, the Iranian defense ministry announced that Ehsan Ghadbeigi had died due to an accident on May 26. Ghadbeigi, an engineer, reportedly perished during an incident at the Parchin military complex near Tehran that also injured an unspecified colleague. Like Kamani and Abdous, he was also branded as a “martyr.”
These deaths also follow the mysterious death of Colonel Ali Esmaelzadeh, who died in his residence in Tehran last week. Esmaelzadeh was reportedly a senior officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Force, Unit 840. Iran International claimed Esmaelzadeh was spying for Israel, but we could not verify this claim.
Revolutionary Guards say colonel assassinated in Tehran
Colonel Sayad Khodaei was gunned down near his house by 2 motorcyclists. Tehran accused anti-revolution groups and agents with ties to Israeli intelligence of the murderREAD: https://t.co/ZzKGRkd2qD pic.twitter.com/1ircbJXzxb
— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) May 23, 2022
Colonel Sayad Khodaei, a senior officer in Unit 840, was killed by Israeli forces as he was suspected to be involved in terrorist attacks against Israeli, American, and European civilians and government officials.
Links With Hezbollah
In contrast to the Iranian Ministry of Defense reports, a source cited by Saudi-backed Iran International claimed that Kamani and Abdous “were not killed in accidents.”
The two officers indeed died in separate incidents in locations hundreds of miles apart but were not killed because of a car or workplace accident, the source said, who did not provide any further details on the two recent deaths.
Notably, the source revealed that the two played a significant role in developing weapons for Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group that has threatened Israel with a large stockpile of missiles given by Iran.
Hezbollah is both a political party and a militant organization of Shiite Muslims in Lebanon. It was founded amidst the chaos of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. Its political organization, coupled with its social service networks and sizable security apparatus, gave the group a reputation of being a state inside a state.
The group’s formation was funded by Iran and the IRCG, who saw the opportunity to expand its influence within the Arabic states. Hezbollah, which means “The Party of God,” has earned a reputation for extremist militancy after frequent confrontations with rival militias and terror attacks on foreign targets.
This included the 1983 suicide bombing of a barracks housing U.S. and French soldiers in Beirut. The attack killed over 300 hundred people.
The U.S. and the EU have designated parts, and sometimes the entire party, as terrorist organizations over the past years. Hezbollah is motivated by its opposition to Israel, its primary rival, and its repulsion to the expansion of Western influence in the Middle East.
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