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Time of India
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Iran Israel Airstrikes: What is Quds Force and why is Israel targeting its commanders? Here's how Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is involved
Two Quds Force Officials Targeted Role of Quds Force IRGC Structure Live Events Iran's Ties with Armed Groups Previous Major Strike Against Quds Force FAQs Two commanders from Iran's Quds Force were reportedly killed in Israeli airstrikes. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the operation, linking the officials to arms transfers and operations in the Middle East. The strike is part of ongoing regional tensions that have intensified since said it carried out overnight airstrikes that killed Behnam Shahriyari and Saeed Izadi. Shahriyari was identified as being responsible for weapons transfers from Iran to groups supported by Iran. Saeed Izadi , who was killed earlier, was said to lead the Palestine branch of the Quds Force. He is sanctioned by the United Quds Force is a part of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC ). It is responsible for conducting operations outside Iran. It works with armed groups in the region, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. The Quds Force helps these groups through coordination, funding and logistical IRGC was formed after Iran's 1979 revolution. It reports directly to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Quds Force is a division within the IRGC and handles regional influence efforts through indirect military the attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, Israeli officials have linked Iran to the group Hamas. Both the US and Israel blame Iran because of its long-term support for Hamas and similar January 2020, the United States killed Qasem Soleimani in a targeted strike in Baghdad. Soleimani had led the Quds Force since 1998. This action increased regional tensions and marked a turning point in US-Iran United States labeled the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization in 2019. This includes the Quds Force. The designation limits IRGC's international activities and allows for sanctions against its Quds Force operates outside Iran. It supports and works with groups like Hezbollah and Hamas through military, financial and logistical claims the commanders helped transfer weapons to groups hostile to Israel. These actions are seen as part of Iran's regional influence.
Calgary Herald
3 hours ago
- Politics
- Calgary Herald
IAF kills Quds Force commander involved in Oct. 7 massacre
Article content Overnight Friday, IAF jets also targeted and killed Behnam Shahriyari, commander of the Quds Force's Unit 190, which is responsible for weapons transfers from Iran to its regional proxies. According to the IDF, Shahriyari was targeted while traveling in his vehicle in western Iran, more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from Israel. Article content Shahriyari oversaw the delivery of arms from the Iranian regime to terrorist groups across the Middle East, including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis in Yemen. The IDF said he played a central role in arming these organizations with rockets and missiles—many of which have been launched at Israel during the war. Article content He also played a central role in financing regional terrorist networks, reportedly directing the annual flow of hundreds of millions of dollars through a network of shell companies, money changers and couriers—primarily operating out of Turkey and Lebanon. Article content 🔴ELIMINATED: Behnam Shahriyari, commander of the Quds Force's Weapons Transfer Unit in the IRGC, was eliminated in a precise IDF strike in western Iran. Shahriyari was responsible for all weapons transfers from the Iranian regime to its proxies across the Middle East in order… — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 21, 2025 Article content Article content According to the IDF, Shahriyari's logistical and financial operations directly contributed to the deaths and injuries of numerous Israeli civilians and soldiers. His long-standing role was seen as vital to advancing Iran's strategic goal of destabilizing the region and threatening Israel through a web of proxy forces. Article content 'His elimination represents a severe blow to the ability of the terrorist organizations surrounding the State of Israel to regroup and strengthen after being heavily damaged by the IDF during the war,' the military said in a statement. Article content Meanwhile, the IAF also targeted and killed Aminpour Joudaki, commander of the IRGC Air Force's second UAV brigade. The IDF said he was responsible for planning and executing hundreds of drone attacks against Israel from the Ahvaz region in southwestern Iran. Article content Following the June 13 elimination of Taher Pour—the commander of the IRGC Air Force's UAV headquarters—Joudaki reportedly assumed a leading role in managing the unit's operations.
National Post
3 hours ago
- Politics
- National Post
IAF kills Quds Force commander involved in Oct. 7 massacre
Article content Overnight Friday, IAF jets also targeted and killed Behnam Shahriyari, commander of the Quds Force's Unit 190, which is responsible for weapons transfers from Iran to its regional proxies. According to the IDF, Shahriyari was targeted while traveling in his vehicle in western Iran, more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from Israel. Article content Shahriyari oversaw the delivery of arms from the Iranian regime to terrorist groups across the Middle East, including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis in Yemen. The IDF said he played a central role in arming these organizations with rockets and missiles—many of which have been launched at Israel during the war. Article content He also played a central role in financing regional terrorist networks, reportedly directing the annual flow of hundreds of millions of dollars through a network of shell companies, money changers and couriers—primarily operating out of Turkey and Lebanon. Article content 🔴ELIMINATED: Behnam Shahriyari, commander of the Quds Force's Weapons Transfer Unit in the IRGC, was eliminated in a precise IDF strike in western Iran. Shahriyari was responsible for all weapons transfers from the Iranian regime to its proxies across the Middle East in order… — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 21, 2025 Article content Article content According to the IDF, Shahriyari's logistical and financial operations directly contributed to the deaths and injuries of numerous Israeli civilians and soldiers. His long-standing role was seen as vital to advancing Iran's strategic goal of destabilizing the region and threatening Israel through a web of proxy forces. Article content 'His elimination represents a severe blow to the ability of the terrorist organizations surrounding the State of Israel to regroup and strengthen after being heavily damaged by the IDF during the war,' the military said in a statement. Article content Meanwhile, the IAF also targeted and killed Aminpour Joudaki, commander of the IRGC Air Force's second UAV brigade. The IDF said he was responsible for planning and executing hundreds of drone attacks against Israel from the Ahvaz region in southwestern Iran. Article content Following the June 13 elimination of Taher Pour—the commander of the IRGC Air Force's UAV headquarters—Joudaki reportedly assumed a leading role in managing the unit's operations.
BBC News
3 hours ago
- Politics
- BBC News
Israel says it killed Iran's military coordinator with Hamas
Israel says it has killed a senior Iranian commander who helped plan Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel, in a strike on Saturday on the city of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the killing of Saeed Izadi marked a key point in the conflict. He was "one of the orchestrators" of the attack, which killed about 1,200 people and saw many others taken to Gaza as hostages, said IDF chief Eyal Zamir."The blood of thousands of Israelis is on his hands," he said on Saturday, calling it a "tremendous intelligence and operational achievement."Iran is yet to confirm Izadi's killing and has previously denied involvement in Hamas's attack. Live updatesThe IDF said it had killed Izadi in a strike on an apartment in Qom, south of Tehran, in the early hours of Saturday. He had been in charge of the Palestine Corps of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps's (IRGC) Quds Force, responsible for handling ties with the Palestinian armed was reportedly instrumental in arming and financing Hamas, and had been responsible for military co-ordination between senior IRGC commanders and Hamas leaders, the IDF April 2024, Izadi narrowly survived an Israeli air strike targeting the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria - an attack that killed several high-ranking Quds Force later on Saturday also claimed to have killed another Quds Force commander, Behnam Shahriyari in a drone strike as he was travelling in a car through western had been responsible for transporting missiles and rockets to Iran's proxy groups across the region, including Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, said the Israeli claims are confirmed, the assassinations of Izadi and Shahryari represent a major blow to the attacks come as the conflict between the two countries entered its ninth day, with both launching new attacks on Saturday. Iran said Israel had targeted a nuclear facility near the city of Isfahan. Israel said it was targeting military infrastructure in south-west Iran and reported at least one impact from Iranian drones that entered its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meanwhile told reporters in Istanbul that any US involvement in the conflict would be "very very dangerous". On Friday he told European envoys in Geneva on Friday that Iran would not resume talks over its nuclear programme until Israel's strikes Trump has suggested US involvement in Israel's strikes on Iran, saying Tehran had a "maximum" of two weeks to avoid possible American air strikes if they did not negotiate on their nuclear officials say least 430 people, including military commanders, have been killed and 3,500 injured in Iran since the conflict began on 13 June. A human rights group tracking Iran, the Human Rights Activists News Agency, put the unofficial death toll at 657 on Israel, officials say 25 people have been killed including one of a heart attack.
Fox News
6 hours ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Israel-Iran conflict enters week two as international community pushes for resolution
incoming update… The Israel Defense Forces said it killed a commander of the Quds Force's Weapons Transfer Unit in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in a strike in western Iran. Behnam Shahriyari "was responsible for all weapons transfers from the Iranian regime to its proxies across the Middle East in order to directly advance the Iranian regime's plan to destroy Israel," the IDF said. "Shahriyari also commanded the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars annually to various terrorist organizations," it continued. "Furthermore, he led the extensive effort to finance and arm these terrorist organizations—an effort that has resulted in the deaths and injuries of many Israeli civilians and soldiers." He was killed while traveling in western Iran, the IDF said. "His elimination represents a severe blow to the ability of the terrorist organizations surrounding Israel to regroup and strengthen after being heavily damaged by the IDF during the war," the IDF said. On Saturday, the State of Israel's official X account posted a video tour of a mosque in Haifa that suffered severe damage in an Iranian missile. Amro Hossein, the muezzin of Al-Jarina Mosque, walks through the damage and condemned Iran's actions. "When [Iran] shot the missile they don't [see a] difference. They don't ask you if you are Muslim, if you are Jewish, if you are Christian, if you are anything," Hossein said. "They attack everyone in this country just for one thing: to smash this country." Hossein also expressed his faith in Israel's ability to defend itself and to "smash every enemy." The head of the Palestinian Division in the Quds Force from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards was killed in an Israeli strike in the Iranian city of Qom, according to the Israeli Defense Forces. The IDF said Saeed Izadi was also a "key coordinator between the Iranian regime and Hamas, and one of the main orchestrators of the October 7 massacre." "He was responsible for military coordination between the senior commanders of the IRGC and the Iranian regime with key figures in Hamas," it said. "As part of his role, Izadi was responsible for increasing the financial funding from Iran to Hamas for terrorist activities against Israel," the IDF said. "During the war, he was also responsible for directing Hamas forces operating from Lebanon. Since then, he has been committed to rebuilding Hamas' military wing and ensuring that Hamas remains the controlling authority in Gaza." Chinese President Xi Jinping recently made a proposal on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran, which was detailed by Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the U.N. The proposal includes the position that promoting a ceasefire and ending hostilities is an urgent priority, the stance that ensuring the safety of civilians is of the utmost importance, stressing that opening dialogue and negotiation is the "fundamental way forward" and ensuring that efforts by the international community to promote peace are "indispensable." Cong reiterated Xi's proposal at Friday's Security Council meeting called by China, Pakistan and Russia. The U.S. Embassy in Iraq is urging Americans not to travel to Iraq and avoid large gatherings if they must be in the country after US interests in Iraq have been targeted by Iran. The U.S. State Department maintains a level four "do not travel" advisory for Iraq, saying that Americans should not travel to the country for any reason. The embassy advises Americans who must travel to Iraq to avoid large gatherings and crowds, keep their phone charged and update their loved ones of their status as well as enrolling in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program to receive information and alerts and make it easier to locate them in an emergency overseas. Americans were also encouraged to prepare a plan for emergencies. Live Coverage begins here
