أحمد جبريل
Irani's rotting corpse was found on May 21 in the back of his car. The official cause of death was a bullet piercing to the heart. His body was discovered seven hours after the assassination of Jihad Jibril, son of PFLP-GC leader Ahmed Jibril in Beirut. The two assassinations being clearly unlinked, some think that the kidnappers dumped Irani's corpse in the aftermath of Jibril's assassination for diversion purposes. A newsportal, Al Qanat, revealed they had received a report saying that Irani had been murdered because they feared he would speak out about his abductors and that it would have created a "big political crisis."