From the UAE's The National, March 4:
The commander who keeps surviving: Mystery deepens around Iran's Qaani and the spy question
Unverified claims online suggest he has been detained, or even executed, for spying for Israel
Esmail Qaani has spent the past two years accumulating a reputation for his extraordinary ability to walk away unscathed while everyone around him dies.
But now that Iran is at war with the US and Israel, his fate is, once again, the subject of intense speculation, with unverified claims circulating online that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has detained or even executed the Quds Force commander on suspicion of spying for Israel.
“Esmail Qaani, head of Iran’s Quds Force has been executed by IRGC. He has survived all assassination attempts so far & was even with Khamenei during US-Israel bombing but escaped. Earlier, he was taken into custody by the IRGC on suspicion of being a Mossad agent,” said one X account.
The same claim appeared in other accounts.
Mr Qaani, 67, took command of the IRGC's Quds Force in January 2020 after the US assassination of his predecessor, Qassem Suleimani, in Baghdad. The Quds Force is Iran's elite foreign operations arm, the unit that built, armed and co-ordinated the “Axis of Resistance” across the Middle East....
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....From Israel's Ynet News, September 30:
Mossad infiltrated Iranian intelligence unit established to spy on Israel, Ahmadinejad says
Former president of Iran tells CNN Turk that the man who headed the Islamic Republic's division meant to thwart Mossad operations was found in 2021 to be an Israeli spy, and 'another 20 members were Mossad agents'; They stole Iran's nuclear documents
The former president of Iran made an amazing claim in an interview Monday with the CNN network in Turkey. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Tehran established a unit meant to thwart the operations of Israel's Mossad, and it later became clear to them that the man who headed it was a Mossad agent.....
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