Top Iranian IRGC Terrorist Leader killed On Road To Damascus By Roadside Bomb: Col. Davoud Jafari

 Nadene Goldfoot                                         

Iran is blaming Israel for the killing of Revolutionary Guard member,  Colonel Davoud Jafari. He was killed by an explosive device that hit his vehicle on a road in the Damascus area. Iran is vowing revenge. Jafari by all definitions is an important terrorist leader.  

The force identified the officer killed as PhD. Col. Davoud Jafari (University of Twente, Department of Design, Production and management), who it said was working for the Revolutionary Guard. The force identified the officer killed as Col. Davoud Jafari, who it said was working for the Guard’s aerospace division.  He had a Phd.  The statement warned that Israel will answer for what it called the “crime.”The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said Jafari was a drone and air defense expert adding that he was killed along with his Syrian guard when a roadside bomb struck their car in the southern Damascus suburbs of Sayyida Zeinab.  An official with an Iran-backed group confirmed to The Associated Press that Jafari was killed by a roadside bomb near the Damascus International Airport, south of the capital. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was speaking about security affairs in Syria, said the bomb was planted to release the pressure in the direction of the car.  It was said that  his  car was riddled with metal pebbles and its windshields was blown out. 

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC;  'Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution'  is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, founded after the Iranian Revolution on 22 April 1979 by order of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Whereas the Iranian Army defends Iranian borders and maintains internal order, according to the Iranian constitution, the Revolutionary Guard is intended to protect the country's Islamic republic political system, which supporters believe includes preventing foreign interference and coups by the military or "deviant movements". The IRGC is designated as a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United States.

As of 2011, the Revolutionary Guards had at least 250,000 military personnel including ground, aerospace and naval forces. Its naval forces are now the primary forces tasked with operational control of the Persian Gulf. It also controls the paramilitary Basij militia which has about 90,000 active personnel. Its media arm is Sepah News. On 16 March 2022, it adopted a new independent branch called the "Command for the Protection and Security of Nuclear Centers."

Since its origin as an ideologically driven militia, the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution has taken a greater role in nearly every aspect of Iranian society. Reuters opined in 2019 that "It is also an industrial empire with political clout." Its expanded social, political, military and economic role under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration—especially during the 2009 presidential election and post-election suppression of protest—has led many Western analysts to argue that its political power has surpassed even that of the country's Shia clerical system.

The Chief Commander of the Guardians since 2019 is Hossein Salami, who was preceded by Mohammad Ali Jafari and Yahya Rahim Safavi respectively from 2007 and 1997.  Iran, as bad as all this is, is 6th in size of Muslim majority 

countries with a population of 76,923,300 noted in 2011.  Their 

military power (active troops) was said to be 545,000.  

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