Another assassination in Iran?

It appears that yet another assassination of an Iranian involved with the military has occurred with all the similarities of previous attacks.

Like the previous assassinations, the attackers were motorcyclists, according to officials in Khorramabad cited by Israel’s Ynet News.

The motorcyclists reportedly fired shots at a group of soldiers who were headed to an air force base and in the process killed a 43-year-old Iranian military officer.

There were reportedly two motorcyclists involved in the assassination which injured another soldier in the city of Khorramabad, according to local media.

The two shooters fled the scene after shooting at the group who were heading to an air force base located near the city according to Israel’s Channel 2.

The attack occurred early in the morning, at 6:30 am according to the head of the local security forces.

“The search for the assailants continues, and we have launched an investigation into the circumstances of the incident,” he said.

According to a senior official in the Lorestan province where Khorramabad is located, witnesses reported that “many bullets were fired at the soldiers, causing a great panic in the area.”

According to the Mehr News Agency, the officer who was killed was a man named Raze Ali Fimani, who was reportedly a mid-level officer.

This attack comes only 10 days after the nuclear scientist Professor Ahmadi Roshan was killed by a magnetic bomb attached to his car by motorcycles in the northern region of Iran’s capital, Tehran.

These recent attacks are part of a greater covert assault on Iran, which I have covered previously, when there was a string of unexplained “accidental” explosions which killed key figures in the Iranian ballistic missile program.

Many have speculated on foreign involvement in these killings, and I think it is quite likely that the Western intelligence community (e.g. Mossad, CIA, MI6, etc.) are involved to some degree.

However, I do not think that it is actually Western agents on the ground carrying out the attacks, as that would be far too obvious.

Instead, it is likely groups such as the Jundallah, which Israel has been hiring while pretending to be American agents, or the MEK which has been accused of several terrorist attacks in Iran and has been linked to the United States government.

Ynet brings up one case in which 18 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed and others were injured by an explosion at a military base close to Khorramabad, where yesterday’s attack took place.

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