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Iranian Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Force, appeared alive and well on June 24 during celebrations in the Islamic Republic’s capital, Tehran, after a ceasefire with Israel.
Iran’s Tasnim News Agency shared a video showing Qaani among the crowd at the rally, celebrating Iran’s self-claimed victory over Israel.
“Commander Qaani attends today’s gathering of the people of Tehran following Operation Divine Victory,” the agency said on the X social network.
Later, Press TV also published the video, saying: “Qaani, Commander of the IRGC Quds Force, was warmly received by a jubilant crowd in Tehran during victory celebrations over the Zionist [Israeli] regime.”
The New York Times reported that Qaani was among the Iranian military leaders killed in the start of the Israeli war on the Islamic Republic earlier this month.
The opening strikes, on June 13, killed Iran’s military commander Mohammad Bagheri, IRGC chief Hossein Salami, and head of the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, Gholam Ali Rashid, among other leaders. Many of Iran’s top nuclear scientists were also assassinated.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) never confirmed the death of Qaani, but it did include him in an infographic of targeted leaders, which indicate that an attempt was made on the commander’s life at some point during the war.
Qaani was not the only survivor of the Israeli assassination campaign. On the first day of the war, the IDF announced the killing of Ali Shamkhani, a close advisor of the Supreme Leader of Iran. However, Iranian media reported on 20 June that Shamkhani was still alive, and was in stable condition after recovering from severe injuries from an Israeli strike.
Israel started the war with the stated goal of crippling Iran’s nuclear program, then slowly shifted into targeting the military capabilities and government symbols of the Islamic Republic.
The assassination campaign was particularly interesting as it revealed an Israeli desire in weakening the upper command structure of Iran, most likely to facilitate a change in the government, or even a full-on regime change. The assassination disturbed the command and control chain of the military and the IRGC for the first few days, but the government was not weakened.
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israel tried so hard. it failed. iran will now get ts nukes. mwahahahahahaha
yeah if anything, iran now has verifiable data on the bunker buster bombs and how to prevent a potential next attack by building deeper
the iranians celebrating victory over israel shows how strong their propaganda is over there. they are no different than hamas that emerged out of their tunnels to their entire enclave being demolished and yet they claim victory over israel. the israelis are the only people that should be dancing in the streets right now and having victory celebrations.
what does your argument have to do with what i said? i am not talking about who is celebrating what. just about the kinetic energy transfer of those bombs. the hell are you even trying to say here? the only thing the israelis should en celebrating is the us doing their dirty work for them, as usual.
iran does not celebrate war .
some zioclown forgot to strap on it’s ziodiaper, hence the petulant rage…
all world’s diapers merchandise has been rerouted to the terrorist state of zionist. 😁
the jewish supremacists are pretty kooky, so perhaps they might start dancing in their rubble-strewn streets to celebrate having completely failed to topple the iranians.
the jooz measure success by the number of little kiddies they murder. when it comes to fighting real men, they soil their diapers and run whining to uncle chumpo.
well that’s right. now go back to censoring comments here.
you don’t dance when your defeated, thu cockroaches crawl not dance. lmfao! 😁
or they can declare that newtons laws are valid in iran. “airplanes” that fly through steel and betong, and bluster bombs 😂 that fly in mountains 😂 i get a totally wrong impression of wars, its a form of comedy ?
any deeper and they’ll end up in xi’s wine cellar.
now iran can make even stronger concrete mix to strengthen it’s bunkers. chuckles!
iran should open case of infiltration and sabotaging on sovereign land nd gross terrorism and insubordination import of bombs and,spy equipment and lethal drones
iran now needs to build it’s military again especially with a intigrated air defences and intelligence, the way the israelis were able to target the iranian leadeship and nuclear sites was because of the iaea all these so called international organisations have been compromised by western intelligence, the iaea probably gave the west data on the targets.
they had 20 years to do everything you said and they couldn’t accomplish it. iranian leadership is incompetent. they won’t get better. you could do a better job than the ayatollah any day of the week.
competent like those hasbara rats you descend from, who had been planning an attack on iran for over 30 years, and still couldn’t do anything against iran. you got your asses hand to you badly making you cry like little bitches to big daddy usa to save you from extinction ..
putin refused to supply syria or iran with modern air defenses. putin is a thrall of chabad just like trump. the ceasefire is to make sure israel survives.
they will improve . russia and china will assist this . the brics conference is only growing . nothing can change this path
at the rate they are improving they will need space aliens to arrive and help them.
yup!1111111
you would have thought that the jewish supremacists had produced the regime change they wanted, rather than completely failing, after reading your derp comment.
the deal is if trump cuts off ukraine, russia cuts off iran. both putin and trump are chabadniks. and by going along, the softies in iran have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
internal atack has cause bit of setbacks.but iran retaliation destroy almost all of israel cities with scientific,intelligent,military and drone center and spy houses.iran has powerfull missiles which destroys.
do you have a link proving that all these places in israel where hit?
the link is censored by mossad
lol, probably true!
or what’s left of mossad
i’m glad that qaani is alive
ahmadinejad is not glad this traitor is alive.
i remember ukrainian propaganda….then they “killed” almost all russian generals such as gerasimov, mordichev, surovikin and russia lost all os its tanks and missile
if iran was naïve enough to not try having nuke, now they have no choice. their future is north korea. it’s the best way to deal with the west.
in 2 weeks you will hear some news
pffft lmfao
why should the mossad kill their own agents? no wonder iran is doomed.
cope and cry harder 😢
iran defeated all of nato and russia with just ballestic missiles they didn’t even showcase any of their secret technologies lmao
very few of the best iranian missiles were used .
they only used 547 ballestic missiles and 1100 drones in this war lmao and the regime change operation came to an epic fail 15 years of building tunnels and drone bases down the drain they confiscated more than 10k drones in tehran alone hahaha
sounds ominously credible ! 🙂
why show him how and parade him in public as of this is all over with. so he can be assassinated for real the next time? a lot of the things these leaders and nations have been doing make absolutely no sense to the point i think much of this sht is staged. the ukraine bs dragging out for over 2 years with russia still capturing villages in donbass. the syria fiasco. and now this. military decisions that make no sense by those that resist the west over and over
that dude is a fucking coward who hid in the deepest darkest hole he could find while his country was under attack. congratulations iran, you are proven to be absolute bitches once again.
how’d that regime change turn out, anyhow?
another clown story . but israelis cannot leave israel . so they are now also designated as cannon fodder by the banker cabal . quite a poker tell
pissraels stated goals and actual goals were not what we are led to believe. they tried a william of normandy act on the iranian hierarchy and ended up with a hunter biden wall mural