Iranian media today, Sunday, revealed the death of Ayub Tantari, an Iranian scientist specializing in missile and UAV development, who is said to have died last Tuesday and was buried in a cemetery in Yazd province in central Iran.
Tasnim News Agency, quoting official judicial sources in Yazd province, wrote: “All the news published on some social networks about the mysterious death of Iranian engineer Ayub Entezari as one of the Iranian elites in the field of space sciences. “False and false.”
The sources added: “Ayub White was not a prominent scientist and was an ordinary employee of an industrial company. In addition, he was ill and died of natural causes in a hospital, and the causes of his death are under investigation.” “
“A relative of the deceased first posted the rumor on his Instagram account, causing the incorrect information to be widely republished on the governor’s office and then across the country, so that the person could be prosecuted.”
Yesterday, Saturday, in press reports affiliated with the Iranian opposition, it was claimed that Ayub Entezari, a scientist specializing in the construction of missiles and UAVs, had died last week in mysterious circumstances.
This happened after a week ago, a senior officer of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps published contradictory reports about his fall from the balcony, suicide or assassination at his house on the outskirts of Tehran.
Colonel Ali Esmailzadeh died about a week after the assassination of another high-ranking officer of the same unit, Colonel Hassan Sayad Khodaei, in a shooting in Tehran.
Their deaths come amid a new wave of escalating tensions between Iran and Israel that have sparked years of covert sabotage and targeted killings.
Both officers were high-ranking members of a top secret group of the Revolutionary Guards, Unit 840, which Israeli officials say is responsible for assassinating foreigners abroad.
According to an intelligence official familiar with the connections, Iran blamed Israel for the assassination of Colonel Khodaei, the unit’s deputy commander, and Israel told US officials that it was behind the assassination.
Source: Lebanon Debate
