IRGC denies any of its members getting killed pager attack

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has denied any of their fighters getting killed in Lebanon’s pager attack allegedly orchestrated by Israel late on Tuesday.

Talking to Iran’s Mizan news agency, an IRGC spokesperson said, “Some media reporting that members of the Revolutionary Guards were martyred in the terrorist attack with pagers in Lebanon is false.”

Earlier today, Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hadath said that 19 members of IRGC died in Syria as a result of the pager attack.

The death toll rose to 12, including two children, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said on Wednesday. Tuesday’s attack wounded nearly 3,000 people, including many of the militant group’s fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut.

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A Taiwanese pager maker denied that it had produced the pager devices which exploded in an audacious attack that raised the prospect of a full-scale war between the Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel.

Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel, whose military declined to comment on the blasts. The two sides have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the Gaza conflict erupted last October, fuelling fears of a wider Middle East conflict that could drag in the United States and Iran.

The explosive pagers might have been detonated earlier than the agreed-upon date by Israel after it was concerned that Hezbollah might have foiled the attack plan.

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A report by Axios quoted US officials as saying that members of Hezbollah might have discovered Israel’s plan of planting explosives in the pagers and hence decided to blow them up sooner rather than later.

With inputs from Reuters