Is Iran’s Top Military Chief a TRAITOR? Rumors are swirling that missing Esmail Qaani is behind Israel’s incredible terror killing

The disappearance of Iran’s top military commander has sparked shocking claims that he is the traitor behind Israel’s incredible cull of its terrorist enemies.

Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, 67, is the terror state’s most powerful military figure after legendary strongman Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US strike.

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Qaani has not been heard from — even by his family — since an Oct. 4 attack on a bunker in Beirut where he was believed to be meeting Hezbollah’s top brass.

But sources claimed today that Qaani was interrogated while under house arrest – and that he was suspected of being Israel’s top spy.

Qaani is believed to have been killed along with Hezbollah’s heir apparent, Hashem Saffeieddine, 60, in last week’s bunker explosion.

But sources in Lebanon, Iraq and Iran have since revealed they did not attend the meeting – and avoided another a week earlier in which Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was shot.

And his act of disappearance caused consternation among Iran’s panicked military last night as rumors spread that he had turned against the evil Islamic regime.

Qaani leads the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force and the regime has confirmed that he is “alive and in good health.”

He is also being investigated in connection with the murder of 64-year-old Nasrallah on September 27.

Nasrallah’s death sparked a desperate hunt for the Israeli mole by the Guards – who investigators now say suspect their own leader.

Multiple sources said yesterday/today (Thursday) that Qaani and his team have been locked up as interrogators demand answers.

Qaani became head of the Quds Force – the IRGC’s overseas unit – after the US assassination of its previous leader, Qassem Soleimani, in January 2020.

Israel has managed to wipe out dozens of enemy commanders across the region with intelligence-led assassinations and its incredible bomb-bombing of pagers and walkie-talkies.

Among them was Safieddine, who is believed to have been killed during a meeting of Hezbollah’s Shura Council in Beirut, where Qanni was said to be present.

Within minutes of arriving, his bunker beneath tower blocks in southern Beirut was hit by multiple attacks that devastated the neighborhood.

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Qaani was initially thought to have been killed or injured, but it has since emerged that he withdrew from the meeting.

Iraj Masjedi, deputy commander of the Quds Force and former Iranian ambassador to Baghdad, said on Tuesday that Qaani was “in good health and carrying out his daily duties”.

The commander of an armed faction close to Iran said: “The Iranians have serious suspicions that the Israelis have infiltrated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, especially those working in the Lebanese arena, so everyone is currently under investigation.

“Nothing is certain at the moment. The investigation is still ongoing and all options are open.”

It comes as:

Iran’s investigation into Nasrallah’s death also focused on the last movements of Quds Force commander Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, who died along with the terror chief.

Nilforoushan had only just taken over from Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who was killed in April in another Israeli attack on an Iranian consulate in Syria.

Sources said Nasrallah had been outside Beirut’s southern suburbs the night before his assassination, but returned to the area to meet Nilforoushan in a secret operations room.

Nilforoushan, who had previously flown from Beirut from Tehran, was taken straight from the plane to the bunker below in the suburb of Haret Hreik.

And Nasrallah was killed by six huge bunker bombs as soon as he set foot in the gathering to join Qaani’s comrade.

Another source said: “The breach was 100 percent Iranian and there is no doubt about this part.”

Qaani was in Lebanon a week later and was expected to attend the Shura Council meeting on the day of the airstrike at the invitation of Safieddine.

But he reportedly made Qaani apologize and withdrew shortly before Israel struck again.

A Hezbollah source told Middle East Eye: “Israel targeted the location of this meeting with an attack that was bigger and harder than the attack on Nasrallah.

‘Safieddine’s head was what we wanted, and no one else.

“Qaani was invited to this meeting and under the current circumstances he should have attended.”

Who is Esmail Qaani?

Iran’s top military commander has not been there since an Oct. 4 bunker attack in Beirut

Esmail Qaan is an Iranian brigadier general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed Qaani commander of the Quds Force in 2020 following the death of General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a targeted US drone strike near Baghdad International Airport.

During the Iran-Iraq War between 1980 and 1988, Qaani led the 5th Nasr Brigade and the 21st Imam Reza Armored Brigade.

In 1981, he received his military training at the Imam Ali Officers’ Academy in Tehran.

In the 1990s he fought against Afghan drug cartels on Iran’s border with Afghanistan.

Qaani was appointed deputy commander of the Quds Force in 1997 and oversaw financial payments to paramilitary groups, including Hezbollah.

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