An Iranian opposition website reported Tuesday that four former Revolutionary Guards commanders have mysteriously died in the past four days after suffering strokes and heart attacks.The Hebrew YNet article gives details.
The website did not point any fingers but hinted that other elements may have been involved in the deaths.
The four are Wafa Afrian (52), Abbas Mahari(52), Ahmad Siafzada (55) and Mansur Torkan (50).
Afrian was the head of Iran Telecommunication Company and previously was a senior commander in the field of electronic warfare. He was reported ill for months.
Mahari, who died of a stroke, worked at the University of Imam Hussein in Tehran, and he had been linked in the past with developing non-conventional weapons.
Siafzada, who died of a heart attack, was high up in the Revolutionary Guards.
Torkan was one of the the senior commanders of the Revolutionary Guards during the Iran - Iraq war, between the years 1980 to 1988. He died of a stroke.
An Iranian army officer was killed in a motorcycle attack on Saturday.
Hmmmm.....
(h/t Yoel)