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Iran: A Mysterious High-Level Killing

Oct 4, 2013 | 21:05 GMT

Iran: A Mysterious High-Level Killing
Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps march in a military parade in Tehran on Sept. 22.

(ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)

Summary

For the second day in a row, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has denied that the recent death of Mojtaba Ahmadi, an Iranian allegedly working under a cyberwarfare unit linked to the corps, was an assassination. The murky details surrounding Ahmadi's death raise many more questions than answers, but the information released so far does not appear to support widespread speculation that this was either an Israeli-orchestrated operation or the result of an IRGC power struggle amid a developing U.S.-Iranian dialogue.

The details surrounding the death of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps cyberwarfare unit member do not seem to point to either a foreign hand or an internal power struggle....

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