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Iran will avenge the killing of a colonel of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), President Ebrahim Raisi pledged on Monday ahead of a trip to Oman, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported. Raisi accused “imperialist powers” of being behind the assassination, which was carried out on Sunday in a neighbourhood in the south-east of the Iranian capital. The term is used in Iran as a reference to Israel and the United States. The victim, Hassan Sayad Khodayari, was reportedly a member of the Quds Force, one of five branches of the IRGC active in Syria. His attackers fired five shots b…