https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...ther-gj30j9kwf
Death of two Iranian generals fuels fears over Israel
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, already reeling from claims of infiltration by Israel, has suffered a blow with the deaths of two senior officers announced in the space of three days.
One was said to have died of heart disease, and the other coronavirus, but the timing has led to rumours they may have been killed or injured in action.
Brigadier General Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, 65, who was the deputy head of the Quds Force, the Guard’s overseas arm, was at first said to have died of heart disease. The authorities later clarified that his condition was aggravated by the effects of chemical weapons poisoning in his youth during the war with Iraq war in the 1980s, and that he had suffered coronavirus some months ago but recovered.....
Reports of the death of Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Haghbin on Tuesday were even more contradictory. State media said he had died of coronavirus, but a news agency released a photograph of him in hospital in which, while he was wearing breathing apparatus, he was sitting up with both legs heavily bandaged. The photograph was later substituted for one in which his legs were not visible.
There were claims in Saudi media that he had in fact been wounded while fighting with the Houthis, the Iran-backed rebel group in Yemen. Sources inside Iran said both men had been injured in Syria, possibly in an Israeli air strike on a Iran-linked military site near Damascus two weeks ago.
The photograph of Haghbin would suggest that he was making a recovery, but perhaps caught coronavirus in hospital. Iran is experiencing a fourth wave of coronavirus, with hundreds of people dying every day.......