LAHORE: Numerous Iranian political leaders, scientists and key army generals have been assassinated during the last two decades, with Tehran chiefly blaming Israel for the killings, research shows.
Several Iranian scientists killed in foreign-linked assassinations are: These include: Fereydoon Abbasi, Majid Shahriari, Mehdi Tehranchi, Abdolhamid Minouchehr, Ahmed Raza Zolfaghari, Amir Hassan Fakhahi, Akbar Motallebzadeh, Ali Bahuei Katirimi, Mansour Asgari, Saeed Borji, Ardeshir Hosseinpour, Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, Darioush Rezaeinejad, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Akbar Motlebizadeh and Seyed Amir Hossein Feghhi etc.
The most eminent Iranian Generals and military officials killed in recent years include: General Qasem Soleimani (Commander of the IRGC Quds Force), Major General Hossein Salami (commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps), Major General Mohammad Baqeri (chief-of-staff of the Iranian armed forces since 2016 and officially the second-most powerful figure in the military after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei), Major General Gholam Ali Rashid (deputy commander-in-chief of the Iranian armed forces), Brigadier General Mehdi Rabani (deputy head of operations for the armed forces’ general staff), General Amir Ali Hajizadeh (commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force), Brigadier General Gholamreza Mehrabi (the deputy director for intelligence for the general staff), Brigadier General Davud Sheikhiyan (commander of the Air Defense Division of the IRGC Aerospace Force), General Masud Shane’I (chief of staff to slain IRGC commander-in-chief Salami), General Razi Mousavi, Major General Raza Zahedi (a senior figure within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, he had previously commanded the IRGC Aerospace Force and the IRGC Ground Forces), and Brigadier general
Hadi Haji-Rahimi (an Iranian commander who served as deputy in the Quds Force) etc.
