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High-Ranking Iranian General Dies of Heart Disease

FILE-- In this Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006, file photo, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, left, attends a military parade in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
FILE-- In this Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006, file photo, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, left, attends a military parade in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
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High-Ranking Iranian General Dies of Heart Disease

FILE-- In this Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006, file photo, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, left, attends a military parade in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
FILE-- In this Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006, file photo, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, left, attends a military parade in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, a high-ranking general key to Iran's security apparatus, has died, the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Sunday.

Hejazi, who died at 65, served as deputy commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC. The unit oversees foreign operations, and Hejazi helped lead its expeditionary forces and frequently shuttled between Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.

Born in 1956 in the city of Isfahan, Hejazi joined the Guard after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and came to lead the paramilitary Basij volunteer corps for a decade.

Hejazi took up the position of deputy commander of the Quds Force in April of last year after leading the Guard’s paramilitary forces in Lebanon. Iranian media reported that he joined forces fighting against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

The Guard statement said he died of heart disease, without providing any further details.

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Cyber Attack on Italy's Foreign Ministry, Airports Claimed by Pro-Russian Hacker Group

Illustration picture of a hacker with cyber code projected on him (Reuters)
Illustration picture of a hacker with cyber code projected on him (Reuters)
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Cyber Attack on Italy's Foreign Ministry, Airports Claimed by Pro-Russian Hacker Group

Illustration picture of a hacker with cyber code projected on him (Reuters)
Illustration picture of a hacker with cyber code projected on him (Reuters)

Hackers targeted around ten official websites in Italy on Saturday, including the websites of the Foreign Ministry and Milan's two airports, putting them out of action temporarily, the country's cyber security agency said.
The pro-Russian hacker group Noname057(16) claimed the cyber attack on Telegram, saying Italy's "Russophobes get a well deserved cyber response".
A spokesperson for Italy's cyber security agency said it was plausible that the so-called "Distributed Denial of Service" (DDoS) attack could be linked to the pro-Russian group.
In such attacks, hackers attempt to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data traffic in order to paralyze it, Reuters reported
The spokesperson said the agency provided quick assistance to the institutions and firms targeted and that the attack's impact was "mitigated" in less than two hours.
The cyber attack has not caused any disruptions to flights at Milan's Linate and Malpensa airports, a spokesperson for SEA, the company which manages them, said.
While the websites were inaccessible, the airports' mobile apps continued to function, the SEA spokesperson added.