IRAN’S top military leader may have been executed by the regime after being identified as the turncoat who betrayed slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it was claimed today.

Brigadier General Esmail Qaani – leader of the rogue state’s elite Quds Force – miraculously escaped the blitz which killed Khamenei a week ago.

But rumours spread last night that he had been identified as the mole at the pinnacle of the crumbling regime.

Unverified reports began swirling that he had been sentenced to death today after nothing was heard of him since war erupted.

The beardedstrongmanhad survived despite being the focus of suspicion for years which earned him the nickname “The Man With Nine Lives.”

He is reported to have convinced interrogators of his innocence several times after mysteriously leaving sites wiped out by Israeli missile and drone strikes soon after.

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Unverified reports circulating in Arab online media claimed Qaani left the site minutes before blasts wiped out 86-year-old Khamenei in his presidential palace last Saturday.

It is not the first time 68-year-old Qaani has cheated death during pinpoint attacks launched by his arch enemy.

Source: Drudge Report