NCRI – A top commander of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has been killed fighting in Syria’s civil war, officials of the Iranian regime announced on Thursday.
Ahmad Hiyari, who commanded the IRGC’s Iman Hossein Battalion in the city of Shush, south-west Iran, was killed fighting in Syria’s northwestern Latakia region, Alireza Imani, deputy head of the paramilitary Bassij force in Shush told the official state news agency IRNA.
Iranian state media said Hiyari had travelled to Syria about 10 days earlier to join the fighting. He died from his injuries on Wednesday.
The regime plans to hold his funeral in Shush on Friday.
On Tuesday, the regime’s state media said another Iranian national Mohammad Hassan Hosseini, was injured in the fighting in Syria. Hosseini, posing as a journalist for the regime’s state broadcasting corporation, is in fact an element of the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
Three IRGC colonels were killed in July in the ongoing civil war in Syria.
They were in Syria as part of Tehran’s efforts to keep Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in power.
The Iranian regime’s President Hassan Rouhani has said Tehran will back Assad “until the end of the road”. A number of other senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders have been killed in the conflict in recent months.
In June, Iranian state media said that at least 400 men who have died fighting for Assad have been buried in Iran so far.
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