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Reports: Senior Commander With Iran's Revolutionary Guards Killed In Syria

By RFE/RL's Radio Farda August 23, 2022

Iranian media is reporting that General Abolfazl Alijani, a senior commander with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), has been killed in Syria.

On August 23, the DEFA Press agency identified the commander as a "defender of the shrine," a reference to Iranians who work on behalf of Iran in Syria or Iraq, without providing more details of the attack in which he was killed.

Alijani was a regional commander of the Revolutionary Guards' ground forces in the central city of Isfahan.

According to Iran International, a news outlet associated with the country's political opposition, Alijani was killed while serving as a "military adviser" in Syria.

Tehran has provided military support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces since at least 2012 in the form of military advisers and volunteers, but it denies sending its own troops.

Even so, Iranian media have reported the death of a handful of Iranian commanders along with hundreds of Iranian fighters.

The IRGC is a powerful security and military organization that also controls an estimated 40 percent of the Iranian economy.

Written by Ardeshir Tayebi based on an original story in Persian by RFE/RL's Radio Farda

Source: https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-commander-alijani-killed- syria/32001105.html

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