On Tuesday, the media reported the death of a senior U.S. CIA officer, Michael D’Andrea, who, according to preliminary data, was in charge of the attack on Iranian General Suleimani.
This is reported by Argumenti.ru, According to the portal, the Iranian agency Mehr, citing sources in Russian intelligence, claims that a CIA officer was killed in the crash of a U.S. military aircraft in Afghanistan.
General Suleimani, who headed the Al-Quds special unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in Baghdad on January 3 as a result of an attack from an American drone. Along with the Iranian general, several Iraqi citizens were killed, including the deputy head of the Iraqi Shiite militia, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Washington believes that they were involved in organizing the storming of the American Embassy in December 2019. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry called the operation against Suleimani a violation of the country’s sovereignty.