Head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, is alive and was seen among rallying crowds in Tehran.
#BREAKING
— Tehran Times (@TehranTimes79) June 24, 2025
General Qaani, Commander of the IRGC Quds Force, at the victory celebration over the Zionists in Tehran pic.twitter.com/M0TxJ6Qtc9
Earlier, fake news about his assassination was circulated on social media.
Azaad Digital has now fact-checked the report and confirmed that the false claim originated from an India-based X account impersonating an Israeli handle.
We have also shared a screenshot of the fake account as evidence.
The account falsely posted an image of Esmail Qaani, claiming he had been eliminated.
This exposure reveals where India’s loyalties lie—clearly siding with Israel against Iran by spreading disinformation.
This is not the first time Qaani has been falsely reported dead in an Israeli strike. In October, reports widely circulated that he had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.
Qaani succeeded Qasem Soleimani as commander of the Quds Force after Soleimani was killed in a targeted US drone strike in 2020.
Qaani played a key role in suppressing uprisings after the Shah’s overthrow and participated in the Iran-Iraq War, a conflict that claimed over a million lives. In 1988, he was appointed deputy commander of the 8th Operational Zone of the Revolutionary Guards Ground Forces, based in Mashhad.
