Iranian Commander Missing In Action

TEHRAN - Reuters reports Iran's Quds Force Commander, Esmail Qaani, who traveled to Lebanon, after the killing of Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli Airstrike, which occurred in September, is now missing in action.  Two Iranian officials told Reuters that Commander

Qaani had not been heard from in two weeks.  Qaani was last seen in Beirut in the southern suburbs, and was there during a strike that targeted Senior Hezbollah Official Hashem Safieddine, but the Iranians say the two were not scheduled to meet, when the strikes happened.  Safieddine was seen as the likely successor to Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike on September 27th, near Beirut.  Qaani was named by Tehran, as the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' Overseas military intelligence service, or Quds Force after his successor was killed in a drone strike in Baghdad in 2020, which was authorized by then President Trump, after Iran killed some U.S. Military personnel in Iraq.