Reports indicate that Ayoob Entezari may have been poisoned
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Aerospace engineer Ayoob Entezari worked on the development of missiles and drones
An Iranian aerospace engineer, who worked on missile and drone development at a research and development center in the city of Yazd, died under suspicious circumstances this week..
Ayoob Entezari had a doctorate in aerospace engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran and lost his life last Tuesday, according to reports made available to various media outlets. Israelis. Some reports indicated that he died from ingesting poisoned food, published the newspaper The Times of Israel.
The circumstances surrounding his death are grim, as some people on social media say the Iranian scientist was killed. No official source has yet ruled on the case.
Reports indicate that Ayoob Entezari died from ingesting food poisoned
The reports surfaced a day after Iran announced the death of another colonel in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, the b>second in two weeksin the unit that oversees Iran’s military operations abroad.
Citing an unknown official, the morning report by the official IRNA news agency said that Colonel Ali Esmailzadeh died during an “incident at his residence” days ago in the city of Karaj, some 35 kilometers northwest of the capital, Tehran. He did not elaborate, but denied reports that the colonel was killed.
In May, Two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle shot Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaei five times in a car outside his residence in Tehran. Iran blamed his assassination on Israel but offered no further details.
Protests continue after building collapse
Protests are growing stronger in Iran
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said this Saturday that popular protests are a tool of “the enemies” of the Islamic Republic, after the demonstrations that have shaken the country due to the rise in food prices or the collapse of a building.
“ The hope of the enemies to deal a blow to the country are popular protests”, said Khamenei. “But the calculations of the enemies are wrong, as many times before”, affirmed the religious leader before 150 senior officials of the Persian country and ambassadors at Khomeini’s mausoleum in Tehran, in a televised ceremony.
He then affirmed that “they try to put the people against the Islamic Revolution” and recalled that after the establishment of the religious regime it was prophesied that it would not last more than six months. “But many more months have passed and we are still strong“, assured the leader, who accused “the enemies” of trying to “break” the Iranian resistance “with social networks and money”.< /p>
Khamenei’s warnings come after in recent weeks there have been protests over the increase in some basic foods, such as bread, after the The government of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisí eliminated subsidies.
In these protests, which took place in several cities in the country, at least two people were killed, according to Iranian media. In addition, the collapse of a building in the southern city of Abadan, which caused at least 34 deaths, sparked protests again last week.