Iran Revolutionary Guards Member Shot Dead In Tehran

Sayyad Khodai: Iran's state news agency IRNA described the killed member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards him as a "defender of the sanctuary."

Gunmen shot dead a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Sunday in the east of the capital Tehran, state news agency IRNA reported.

"Sayyad Khodai... was assassinated during a gun attack carried out by two motorcylists in Tehran's Mohahedin-e Eslam Street," IRNA said.

The agency described him as a "defender of the sanctuary" -- a term used to describe anyone who works on behalf of the Islamic republic in Syria or Iraq.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the ideological arm of Iran's military, identified Khodai as a colonel.