Chapter 327: The Murderer

"Hassan Ruhra Jesumi, nicknamed 'Lightning', senior Quds Force officer ......"

When Nicholas introduced the situation, Wang Dong, Yunlong and Musharraf were all reading the information in their hands, and the screen was a locked picture.

This guy is not simple.

Jesumi was born into a prominent family, and his grandfather followed Ayatollah Khomeini in the revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty, which had ruled Iran for decades.

His father and two uncles fought in the Iran-Iraq war, and both of them were killed.

At the age of fourteen, Jesumi joined the Revolutionary Guards as a reserve officer, and until then he had lived with his grandfather.

Six years later, Jesumi officially became a second lieutenant officer in the Quds Force.

For more than a decade, Jesumi participated in all of Quds Force's foreign operations, traveling to dozens of countries and rising to the rank of major.

Before the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, Jesumi was mainly active in Lebanon.

During this time, he traveled to Libya, but because of the rapid defeat of the Gaddafi regime, it was not long before he returned to Iran with the Quds Force.

Most of the time, Jesumi served as a military instructor, assisting anti-American and anti-Israeli groups such as Allah in their attacks.

What made Jesumi shine was the Syrian civil war.

Before Russia sent troops, Iran's Quds Force was the main foreign aid to the Syrian government forces, and it can even be said that it was the only foreign support.

In the early years of the civil war, the Quds Force operated primarily in Damascus, Homs, and Aleppo, assisting Syrian government forces in their fight against rebels and extremist groups.

In Damascus alone, the Quds Force fought the rebels for two years.

During this time, Jesumi participated in dozens of battles as a high-ranking military officer and was awarded numerous awards from Syria and Iran for his bravery.

With the Russian invasion, the main battlefield of the Quds Force has shifted from large cities to remote towns.

By this time, Jesumi was already a colonel officer in the Quds Force, continuing to serve as an instructor for the Syrian government forces and organizing, planning, and directing combat operations.

In the past few years in Syria, Jesumi has received great attention from the intelligence agencies of the United States and other Western countries.

In fact, before that, Jessumi was targeted by American intelligence agencies.

Before the outbreak of the Libyan civil war, Jesumi had traveled to the United States and was involved in an attempted terrorist attack that almost fell to the FBI.

It was in this way that Jesumi was blacklisted by the US intelligence and security agencies.

As early as more than two years ago, Nicholas hacked into the FBI's database and got this list, so that he could identify Jesumi from the footage taken by Zhang Zilan.

The picture is clear enough, but not coherent enough.

The main thing is that Zhang Zilan has been focusing the camera on Said, but when he shifted the camera, he photographed Jessumi hiding in the crowd.

It wasn't Jesumi who attacked, it was someone else.

However, before the explosion, Jesumi had three close encounters with this person, and had left at the time of the explosion.

Apparently, Jesumi knew that there was an impending explosion and would leave early.

At the scene, he was the only one who left early.

This guy is an intelligence officer?

Certainly, at least professionally trained in the intelligence agencies, mastered the skills of intelligence work, and perhaps an elite agent.

Otherwise, why did he go to the United States in the first place?

The "Quds Force" is a general term for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' foreign operations force, whose primary mission is to export revolutions to other countries.

Jesumi's promotion from ensign to colonel in more than a decade was problematic in itself.

If it was just an ordinary officer, this promotion speed would be too fast.

Also, before becoming a major, Jesumi's resume in the Quds Force was not very rich, and he simply couldn't get enough merit to achieve promotion.

He must have been an intelligence officer, and the Quds Force officer was nothing more than a cover identity.

Of course, Iran's intelligence personnel are almost exclusively military, and most of them are officers of the Quds Force in order to operate in other countries.

Judging from the video taken by Zhang Zilan, Jesumi participated in the assassination of Said.

It's just that, why did Iran assassinate Said?

Wang Dong was very puzzled, and when he put down the information provided by Nicholas, he looked at Yunlong.

Yunlong's expression was calm, he was still looking at the information, and he didn't notice Wang Dong's gaze.

At this time, the door was pushed open, and Yunfeng strode in.

She didn't say anything, turned on the TV, went to Al Jazeera's international news channel, and turned up the volume on the TV.

Wang Dong and the others raised their heads one after another, looking at not Yunfeng, but the TV screen.

An apparently manipulated video is being played, with a man wearing an Islamic headscarf in the center and a star and moon flag in the background.

In addition, there is a line in Arabic on the flag.

Islamic Justice League?

What the heck!?

The video was given to Al Jazeera anonymously, while the self-proclaimed Islamic Justice League claimed responsibility for Saeed's death.

A few minutes later, the news story ended and the comment stage began.

Yunfeng also turned off the sound of the TV, and the comments made by the experts invited by Al Jazeera were not interesting, and they could be heard or not.

At this time, Nicholas also called up a document and sent it to the tablet computer of Wang Dong and others.

The Islamic Justice League is a Shiite political group in Iraq that was a member of the National Alliance, the ruling political coalition of Iraq.

In the last general election, the Islamic Justice League withdrew from the National League.

The simple reason is that the Islamic Justice League is a far-right political group that opposes rapprochement with Sunnis and Kurds, seeks to make Iraq a religious state dominated by Shia Arabs and Iran, and advocates the expulsion of foreign powers from the country.

Fortunately, the Islamic Justice League is a very small political group.

There are many small political groups like the Islamic Justice League in Iraq, and the National League alone is made up of more than 30 political groups.

Many political groups have only a few hundred members, so small that they are not even political parties.

In the past few years, the Islamic Justice League has launched a number of attacks against Westerners, but the impact has not been severe.

Presumably in order to maintain internal unity, Saeed never acted ruthlessly against the Islamic Justice League.

According to the Islamic Justice League, Saeed betrayed Iraq.

The number one crime is the policy of appeasement of the Kurds, that is, instead of preventing the Kurdish autonomous region from holding an independence referendum, but allowing the Kurds to move towards independence step by step.

As for rapprochement with the Sunnis, it is a secondary issue.

Quite simply, Sunnis are also Arabs.

The question is, how could a political group of only a few hundred people plan, organize, and carry out the assassination of the prime minister?