The fate of Esmail Qaani – one of Iran’s most powerful military figures – remains unknown after he became the focus of rumours that he was an Israeli spy.
General Qaani, a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), is said to have aroused suspicion after emerging unscathed from the air strike at the start of the war that killed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader, as well as numerous top aides.
Speculation is rife in the Middle East that he is under house arrest or has been executed.
As head of the Quds Force, one of the five branches of the IRGC, the 68-year-old has been responsible for exporting Iranian terror by training and equipping Islamic revolutionary groups outside Iran since 2020, The Telegraph said.
