Saeed Izadi, mastermind of October 7 attack, killed in Israeli airstrike

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday claimed to have eliminated Saeed Izadi, a senior Iranian military figure and a key architect of the Iranian regime’s strategy to destroy Israel. Izadi was reportedly killed in a targeted airstrike conducted by the IDF in the Qom region of Iran. He was IRGC Palestinian division chief. The IDF further stated that Izadi played a significant role in military coordination between senior commanders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and key Hamas figures. He was also responsible for channeling Iranian financial support to Hamas for terrorist operations against Israel. The military said he was killed overnight in a safe house in the Iranian city of Qom “following a prolonged intelligence effort.” “Izadi facilitated increased financial support from Iran to Hamas for terror activities against the State of Israel and maintained direct contact with Palestinian terror organizations,” both in Gaza and the West Bank, the army said.

«محله سالاریه قم»

«می‌گن حوالی میدان لاله قم توی خیابون سجاد، نزدیک فلکه‌ی میثم رو زدن»

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According to the IDF, Izadi was “one of the founders and leading figures behind the Iranian regime’s plan to destroy Israel.” That plan, according to the IDF, “aimed to launch a multi-front attack on Israel in two phases.” In a separate overnight airstrike, Behnam Shahriyari, a senior IRGC Quds Force official, was killed in western Iran, the military said Saturday morning, noting that he was targeted in a strike while driving in a car, more than 1,000 kilometers from Israel.Shahriyari headed the Quds Force’s Unit 190, which is responsible for the clandestine transfer of weapons to Iran’s proxy groups, especially Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Palestinian terror groups in Gaza, and the Houthis in Yemen. Israel has been seeking to target Shahriyari since 2009, and the military said his killing was a “severe blow to the ability of the terror organizations surrounding the State of Israel to rearm after having suffered heavy losses at the hands of the IDF during the war.”