Tehran: A senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard was killed after a few days of Iran's nuclear arms program scientist was assassinated. The report claims that the murder was done by an apparent drone strike along the Syrian-Iraqi border, according to widely circulated reports in Arabic-language media Monday. 

Local media reports cited by Haaretz, where three more were killed along with the commander, who has been identified as Muslim Shahdan. The Iraqi intelligence sources have quoted saying that Shahdan's car was targeted while he was crossing into Syria. Notwithstanding reports confirms Shahdan's death, Hezbollah-affiliated organization has denied the report. Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in an apparent shooting last week which the Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif linked to Israel. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has not yet commented on the incident. President Hassan Rouhani said that the incident will not disrupt the "scientific growth" of the country and will only make young scientists more determined "to continue the path of this precious martyr", Sputnik reported.

The United States killed Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force responsible for military activity outside Iran in January this year, Haaretz reported. Tension started to re-build in the Middle East region after the US unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal agreement.

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