Lessons For Washington In Airstrike Targeting Senior IRGC Leader
The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force’s Levant operations, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, was killed in an airstrike on Monday in Damascus. Zahedi, a former commander of the IRGC’s Air Force, was known to have close contacts with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as well as Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, the father of Iran's missile program. The Wall Street Journal described Zahedi on Monday as “the boss of Hezbollah,” the Iranian terrorist proxy which has attacked Israel’s northern communities on a near daily basis since October 7, 2023, prompting the displacement of tens of thousands and risking a full blown military conflict in southern Lebanon.