🔴ELIMINATED: Behnam Shahriyari, commander of the Quds Drive’s Weapons Switch Unit within the IRGC, was eradicated in a exact IDF strike in western Iran.
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— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) June 21, 2025
Israel’s Protection Minister Israel Katz stated on Saturday that the army had killed a veteran commander within the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ abroad arm, in a strike in an residence in Iran’s Qom province.
The commander, Saeed Izadi, led the Palestine Corps of the abroad arm, or Quds Drive, Katz stated in an announcement.
The Israeli army later stated that it killed a second commander of the Guards’ abroad arm, who it recognized as Benham Shariyari, throughout a strike on his car in a single day in western Tehran.
It stated the commander “was accountable for all weapons transfers from the Iranian regime to its proxies throughout the Center East.”
Shariyari equipped missiles and rockets launched at Israel to Hezbollah, Hamas and Yemen’s Houthis, in accordance with the Israeli army.
There was no affirmation from the IRGC on the killing of the two commanders.
The Quds Drive constructed up a community of Arab allies referred to as the Axis of Resistance, establishing Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1982 and supporting the Palestinian militant Islamist group Hamas within the Gaza Strip.
However the Iran-aligned community has suffered main blows during the last two years, as Israeli offensives since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, assaults on Israel have weakened each the Palestinian group and Hezbollah.
Katz stated Izadi financed and armed Hamas throughout the preliminary assaults, describing the commander’s killing as a “main achievement for Israeli intelligence and the Air Drive.”
Izadi was sanctioned by the US and Britain over what they stated have been his ties to Hamas and Palestinian militant faction Islamic Jihad, which additionally took half within the October 7 assaults.
