From AFP:
It’s true that this is unprecedented. But broad daylight attacks on members of the regime are not without precedent, there was the assassination in 2003 of a prominent Iranian judge, Hassan Moghaddas. And the Revolutionary Guards has seen a number of their aircraft crash under rather suspicious circumstances. In January of last year, eleven commanders of the Revolutionary Guards were killed when their plane went down, and a number of analysts questioned whether the accident was actually an act of sabotage. And in 2003, the Guards saw 276 killed in another plane crash blamed on poor weather. It’s only speculation, but it seems reasonable to question whether these incidents might not be the result of some factional fighting within the regime, rather than rogue Sunni extremists–an easy scapegoat for the Iranian press.
