NCRI – A military plane carrying commander of the Revolutionary Guards ground forces and 12 members of the Revolutionary Guards ground forces Command Council crashed in the northwest of the country on Monday, killing all 13 aboard, according to state-run news agencies and TV.
The plane, a Falcon, came down near Orumiyeh, near the Turkish border. Those killed included:
– Ahmad Kazemi, the commander of the ground forces of the Revolutionary Guards
– Saeed Mo’atadi, commander of Hazrat Rasoul division
– Saeed Soleimani, deputy operational commander of the Revolutionary Guards ground forces
– Hanif, head of the intelligence
– Yazdani, commander of the artillery unit
– Azin-pour and Assadi, members of the command bureau of the Revolutionary Guards ground forces
The crash was reported to be due to bad weather and technical problems.
