TEHRAN — A general of
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been killed while “on a mission” in Syria,
Iranian state media reported on Tuesday.
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“Gen. Abolfazl Alijani, a member of the IRGC’s
ground forces who was on a mission in Syria as a military adviser, was martyred
on Sunday,” the state broadcaster said on its website.
It described Alijani as a “defender of the
sanctuary”, a term used for those who work on behalf of Iran in
Syria or Iraq,
without providing more details of the attack in which he was killed.
Iran says it has deployed its forces in Syria at the
invitation of Damascus and only as advisers.
In early August, funeral processions were held in
Tehran and other Iranian cities for five IRGC members killed in Syria several
years ago, after their bodies were recovered and identified through DNA
testing, Iranian media reported.
Back in March, the Guards said that an Israeli
attack in Syria killed two of its officers, warning that Israel “will pay for
the crime”.
Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes
inside Syria in recent years. It has acknowledged mounting hundreds of them
since 2011.
Iran and Israel
have been engaged in a years-long shadow war, with the Islamic republic
accusing its “sworn-enemy” of carrying out assassinations of key figures,
including scientists, and sabotage attacks.
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