(Reuters) -Iran’s Quds Pressure commander Esmail Qaani, who travelled to Lebanon after the killing final month of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, has not been heard from since strikes on Beirut late final week, two senior Iranian safety officers advised Reuters.
One of many officers mentioned Qaani was in Beirut’s southern suburbs, often known as the Dahiyeh, throughout a strike that was reported to have focused senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine however the official mentioned he was not assembly Safieddine.
The official mentioned Iran and Hezbollah had not been in a position to contact Qaani since then.
Israel has been hitting a number of targets in Dahiyeh because it pursues a marketing campaign in opposition to Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah.
The second official additionally mentioned Qaani had travelled to Lebanon after the killing of Nasrallah and the Iranian authorities had not been in a position to contact him because the strike in opposition to Safieddine, who was extensively anticipated to be the subsequent Hezbollah chief.
Hezbollah has made no remark up to now on Safieddine.
Requested about studies that Qaani could have been killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut, Israeli army spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani mentioned the outcomes of the strikes had been nonetheless being assessed.
He mentioned that Israel had performed an assault late final week in opposition to Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut.
“When we have more specific results from that strike, we will share it. There’s a lot of questions about who was there and who was not,” he advised a briefing with reporters.
The Quds Pressure, the abroad arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, oversees dealings with militias allied with Tehran throughout the Center East, equivalent to Hezbollah.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Brigadier Basic Abbas Nilforoushan was killed with Nasrallah in his bunker when it was hit on Sept. 27 by Israeli bombs.
