Two aerospace officers die in Iran PHOTO
Two members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force have lost their lives in the northern and central provinces of Iran.
"Mohammad Abdus, a member of Aerospace Force in Semnan [Province], was martyred during service after years of tireless and sincere efforts to serve the establishment and the Islamic nation," Iran’s Fars news agency reported on June 12.
According to the report, Abdus was born in 1989 and died on June 12 in the northern province of Semnan.
On the same day, Tasnim reported the death of another member of IRGC Aerospace Force, Ali Kamani, in a car accident in Khomein County in Markazi Province.
The commander of the IRGC's Ruhollah Corps, Brigadier General Mohsen Karimi, issued a condolence message saying that Kamani was "martyred during an operation".
The statement comes amid the suspicious deaths of IRGC officers in Iran.
IRGC Quds Force Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodai was killed in his car outside his home in Tehran on May 22. Iran blamed Israel for the incident and vowed revenge for it.
An Iranian engineer, Ehsan Qadbeygi, was killed in an explosion on May 26 at the Parchin military complex east of Tehran, and the blast was allegedly by a drone attack.
Ayoub Entezari, an aerospace engineer working at the Iran Aviation Industries Organisation in Yazd Province, died of suspected food poisoning on May 30.