MADRID, 23 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has assured this Monday that the country’s authorities will “avenge” the death of Revolutionary Guard Colonel Hasan Sayad Jodaei, who was shot on Sunday in the capital, Tehran.
“There is no doubt that there will be revenge against the criminals for the blood of the great martyr,” the president said before his official visit to Oman, according to the Iranian news agency Tasnim.
Raisi has also conveyed his condolences to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Jodaei’s family and stressed that the investigation will undoubtedly reveal that “global arrogance” was behind the attack, in apparent reference to the United States.
Jodaei died on Sunday after being shot five times by two unidentified men on a motorcycle as he was about to enter his home in the Mohamedin-e-Eslam neighborhood.
The Revolutionary Guard denounces that Jodaei was “target of a terrorist crime against the revolution and elements affiliated with global arrogance”, an argument used in denouncing the death in January 2020 of General Qasem Soleimani, one of the main architects of military policy outside the country, in a US bombing in Iraq.
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