Top IRGC Advisor Killed in Syria
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani, a commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), was killed while in an advisory mission in Syria on Thursday.
The IRGC Public Relations Department said in a statement on Friday that the ranking commander was martyred Thursday evening by the ISIL terrorists on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo.
A one-time commander during the 8-year Iraqi imposed war on Iran in the 1980s, Brigadier General Hamedani was a senior military advisor that played a “decisive role in the protection of the holy shrine of Sayyida Zeinab (AS)” against terrorist attacks, the statement said.
The shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, a sister of the third Shiite Imam (AS), is located in Damascus.
The IRGC statement also highlighted Brigadier General Hamedani’s role in strengthening the Islamic resistance front in the fight on terrorists in Syria.
Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with Takfiri terrorists currently controlling parts of it, mostly in the east.
In the past four and half years, more than 240,000 people have died in Syria -overwhelmingly civilians– and around 4 million Syrian people are now refugees in other countries. Another 7.6 million are displaced inside Syria.
Iran, a close ally of Syria, has been supporting the legitimate Syrian government in the fight against terrorists.
Tehran has already made it clear that its assistance to Syria is confined to consultation and advisory help.
