A senior member of Iran’s elite Quds Force died of coronavirus, the country’s state-run Tasnim news agency reported Sunday.
Iran is widely considered the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism. The Quds Force is its extraterritorial black-ops arm and is heavily involved in the country’s attempts to expand its control over the Persian Gulf and the Middle East.
According to the report, Ostovar had been in a coma for over two months before dying in an IRGC-run hospital in Tehran.
Several senior Iranian officers serving with the IRGC and the Quds Force have died since the pandemic reached Iran in February.
The Islamic Republic is the hardest-hit country in the Middle East with more than 1 million recorded cases of COVID-19 and 50,000 deaths.
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.