Iranian officers' mysterious deaths probed amid rising tensions with Israel.
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General Mohammad Reza Hasani-Ahangar, commander of the IRGC-affiliate military university of Imam Hussein, was referring to a May 26 explosion at the facility, in which Ehsan Qadbeigi, an engineer working at one of the research units, was killed. Parchin houses several industrial and research units.On June 12, Ali Kamani, a junior officer of the IRGC Aerospace Force, died in a car accident in Khomein, a town in central Iran, according to a provincial IRGC statement.
"I think [this series of deaths] can indeed be linked, especially in the case of two deaths on the same day," Farzin Nadimi, an associate fellow with The Washington Institute, told ABC News. He specializes in security and defense in Iran and the Gulf region. Iranian judicial authorities, however, said he had not been a scientist but an ordinary employee of an industrial company and had passed away in a hospital after being sick.Colonel Ali Esmailzadeh, a commander of the notorious Quds Force, IRGC's external operations unit, died on May 30 after falling from the roof of his home in Karaj, west of Tehran, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
"If those deaths are indeed linked, and of 'unnatural' causes, Israel's Mossad could be one of the main suspects," Nadimi said. The deaths came amid attempts by international officials to save the 2015 nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, between Iran and world powers. "Iran won't just keep its nuclear program; from today, they'll be getting paid for it," Bennett said in an official message in November, amid talks to resume the deal.
Tehran accused the IAEA of politicizing its nuclear case and referencing "fake documents" in the verification process of its nuclear program, including what Israel provides to the agency.In this May 23, 2021, photo, the Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
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