Iran Guards accuse ‘Zionists’ of assassinating colonel
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards yesterday accused "Zionists" of assassinating a colonel in Tehran earlier this month, the Guards' official website reported.
Colonel Sayyad Khodai, 50, was fatally shot on May 22 outside his home in the east of the Iranian capital by assailants on motorcycles. He was hit with five bullets, according to official media.
The colonel was killed "by the most vicious people, the Zionists, and God willing, we will avenge his death," Major General Hossein Salami said, according to an official statement released by the Guards' Sepah News website.
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