STORY: :: The Israeli military says it killed a commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' overseas arm
:: Israeli army handout
:: It says it struck a vehicle said to be carrying Benham Shariyari
:: Released on June 21, 2025
A handout of the Israeli army showed monochrome aerial footage of a strike on vehicles which it said carried Shariyari. Reuters was not able to verify the date or location the video was filmed.
The Israeli military said the commander "was responsible for all weapons transfers from the Iranian regime to its proxies across the Middle East".
Shariyari supplied missiles and rockets launched at Israel to Hezbollah, Hamas and Yemen's Houthis, according to the Israeli military.
Earlier on Saturday, Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the military had also killed a veteran commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' overseas arm, Saeed Izadi, in a strike in an apartment in Iran's Qom province.
Izadi, led the Palestine Corps of the overseas arm, or Quds Force, Katz said in a statement.
There was no confirmation from the IRGC on the killing of the two commanders.
The Quds Force built up a network of Arab allies known as the Axis of Resistance, establishing Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1982 and supporting the Palestinian militant Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
