Media: Senior Iranian military official overseeing oil deals killed
Israel's The Times of Israel website reported on April 5: The Israeli military announced that on Friday, a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responsible for oil transactions was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Tehran.
The report states that the airstrike resulted in the death of Mohammad Reza Ashrafi Kahi, whom the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) identified as "a senior IRGC official in charge of oil, previously serving as the business manager of the military’s oil department."
The report says the IDF stated that the IRGC’s oil headquarters "enables the continued activity and military buildup of the IRGC through profits from oil sales, while bypassing international sanctions."
The IDF further stated that the slain commander, Kahi, "was responsible for managing the commercial operations of the oil headquarters, activities estimated to be worth billions of dollars annually, which have significantly enhanced the military capabilities of the IRGC and its proxies across the Middle East—including the Houthi movement in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas."
Last week, Jamshid Eshaghi, the head of the oil HQ, was killed in an Israeli attack.
The original headline of the report is: "Senior IRGC oil dealer killed in Israeli strike, IDF says."
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