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Al Qaeda’s second in command was assassinated in Iran. He was killed by Israeli assassins in an attack on the Iranian capital, Tehran, on August 6, three months ago, according to the New York Times. According to intelligence sources, the media reported last Friday that Abu Muhammad al-Masri, an al-Qaeda leader, was shot dead by two assailants on a motorcycle. However, no government has claimed responsibility for the killings. Al Qaeda has not confirmed his death.
Iran has also denied reports that Abu Muhammad al-Masri was killed by Israeli spies in Tehran. This was stated in a statement issued by the Iranian government on Saturday. The Iranian government says there are no Al Qaeda fighters on Iranian soil. Al Qaeda leader Abu Muhammad al-Masri, of Egyptian descent. He is considered the successor to the current leader of the group, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Masri is one of the founding members of Al Qaeda. He also married his daughter, Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden.
Al Qaeda’s second-in-command Masri has been described as one of the “brains” of the 1998 attacks on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. After Ayman al-Zawahiri, he was expected to be the next top leader of the Middle East-based militant group. The attacker struck shortly after noon in front of a US military base. The attacker struck shortly after noon in front of a US military base. The attacker struck shortly after noon in front of a US military base.
Neither Israel nor any other government has claimed responsibility for the assassination. A US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, declined to comment. The White House requested a response from the National Security Council, but did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Although Masri has been in Iranian custody since 2003, he has been living freely on the outskirts of Tehran since 2015, the New York Times reported, citing intelligence officials.
However, Iranian media reported after the incident that Habib Daoud, a Lebanese history teacher, and his 26-year-old daughter Maryam had been killed in the shooting. Daoud was reportedly a Hezbollah member of the Lebanese news channel MTV and several social media accounts linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Several Lebanese officials close to Iran later said they had never heard of Habib Daoud before. The Lebanese media did not cover the murder of any of the country’s history professors at the time. A researcher who has access to the list of all Lebanese history teachers said that he had not seen any documents named Habib Dawood. Reuters and the New York Times
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