【Military Second Dimension】 Author: Fengyu
Russian EADaily on March 5 reported that military blogger Sergey Koliaskin revealed that Ismail Qani, the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, who is suspected of working for Israeli Mossad, has been allowed to commit suicide after an anti-espionage investigation. The report pointed out that before the attack on Supreme Leader Khamenei's residence, Qani left the scene shortly before the strike began.
According to publicly disclosed information from the US and Israel, the location of Khamenei was determined by human intelligence before the strike, and signals around the area were also blocked during the bombing. From this perspective, Qani's suspicion is indeed very high. He went to a meeting and then left just in time, and then the missile hit immediately. However, these accusations that Qani is a traitor have not been confirmed by the Iranian official sources. Whether he really committed suicide or not remains unconfirmed. But considering his several times of accurately avoiding assassination, the suspicion is indeed very high.
▲ Russian media report screenshot
Qani is not an ordinary military leader. He succeeded the late Soleimani, who was decapitated by the United States years ago. Soleimani was known as Iran's second-in-command because he controlled the Quds Force, which is the absolute core of Iran's influence in the entire Middle East, and he had control over the funding and weapons supply chain of the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Yemeni Houthi rebels, and the Iraqi Shia militias. After Soleimani was assassinated in 2020, Qani took over, effectively handing over a complex resistance network spanning multiple countries to Qani. If the head of this network is a Mossad informant, the consequences would be catastrophic, meaning that all of Iran's overseas activities in recent years may have been completely exposed.
▲ Soleimani
The most suspicious thing is his movement. In October 2024, when Israel launched an air strike against the successor of Hezbollah, Safieddin, he mysteriously lost contact. At that time, there were rumors that a traitor had appeared inside, even suspecting him. In June 2025, when the Quds Force headquarters was attacked by Israel, Qani again left just before the missile fell. Plus, in February 2026, he left before the attack on Khamenei. Three consecutive times, he precisely withdrew at the last moment before death, which is hard to explain.
One survival could be luck, but three consecutive times is evidence. Of course, one could say his intelligence ability is strong, and with the precedent of Soleimani, he would be more careful. But this still cannot explain one issue: why are senior military officials being assassinated repeatedly, even the Supreme Leader can be accurately located? Can your intelligence ability only protect yourself? As an intelligence chief, if your early warning system only works when the missile hits your head, but cannot protect the safety of your colleagues and the top leader, this is itself a dereliction of duty, or even a form of betrayal.
▲ Qani
Even more terrifying is that if you can always avoid it, that's fine, but the key point is that you are always present, and once you leave, the missile falls immediately. This extremely high frequency of synchronization makes people unable to help but doubt whether he is intentionally leading the way? Was the purpose of the meeting to collect the exact whereabouts of the target? Or even deliberately organizing meetings to gather important personnel, making it easier for Israel to eliminate them all at once? Of course, there is another possibility: that Israel is conducting psychological warfare. It has already proven that nothing is impossible for Mossad. Perhaps it is really because Qani is good at moving, and Israel can't catch him, so they start spreading related false information. Making him a target for internal cleansing within Iran.
This kind of deception has not been rare in the history of intelligence. By publicly releasing some ambiguous clues, making the other side suspicious, then taking action against their most capable subordinates, thus achieving the goal of eliminating the opponent without spending a single soldier or weapon. After all, it's not the first time that Qani has been reported dead or betrayed. When almost all the core leaders around him have been decapitated, he is still alive, and this survivor bias itself makes him very noticeable. Moreover, Mossad specifically denied that Qani is a spy. Is this out of goodwill?
Last year, after the "Twelve-Day War," Qani appeared on the street
The most bizarre thing is that Iran has not clarified anything so far. According to previous conventions, if a senior general is subjected to such malicious accusations, he usually arranges to appear in public or releases a video to stabilize the situation. For example, in October 2024, when he disappeared in Beirut and was wildly spread by foreign media that he died of a sudden heart attack while being interrogated for being an informant, he quickly appeared at the funeral of General Nayerfroush. Similarly, during last year's "Twelve-Day War," after Qani was reported to have been decapitated, he quickly appeared on the streets of Tehran, proving that he was still alive. But this time, he has not shown up at all, and this abnormal long silence seems to imply something.
Original: toutiao.com/article/7614007550027809343/
Statement: This article represents the personal views of the author.