NCRI – A commander of the Iranian regime’s paramilitary Bassij Force from Isfahan, central Iran, has been killed in Syria in the country’s civil war, the regime’s state media said on Monday. Hamidreza Daei Taqi was commander of the Bassij base called Al-Mehdi Shams Abadi, according to the website of the commander of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards Quds Force Qassem Soleimani.
Hassan Shemshadi, a Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) member who is operating in Syria under the cover of a reporter wrote in the social media that battles in northern, southern, and southwestern Aleppo, as well as north of Latakia, have been intense. He disclosed the role of the IRGC in Syria’s civil war and stated that the machination and planning for the operation, as well as training, equipping and transfer of forces, took five months and it is a week now that the operation has begun.
Qassem Soleimani’s website also reported the death of another two IRGC forces in Iraq and Syria on the same day. Hadi Nomi from Tabriz was killed in Iraq and Pouya Izadi from the IRGC Bassij Force of Isfahan was killed in Syria.
The number of IRGC officer casualties and the publication of the names of the military units that are participating in the Syrian conflict show that the IRGC now has stationed thousands of forces in Syria.
The following senior IRGC commanders have been killed in Syria:
- Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani, one of the founders of IRGC, in charge of the Iranian regime’s forces fighting in Syria to keep dictator Bashar Assad in power (October 8, 2015)
- Gen. Farshad Hassounizadeh, former commander of the Saberin Brigade, a Special Forces unit of the IRGC (October 12, 2015)
- Colonel Hamid Mokhtarband, former chief-of-staff of the 1st Brigade in Ahvaz, south-west Iran (October 12, 2015)
- Colonel Moslem Khizab (October 18, 2015)
Rasoul Pourmorad, a commander of the IRGC Bassij force in Qazvin (October 14, 2015) - Nader Hamid, an official from the IRGC’s paramilitary Bassij force in charge of organizing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s paramilitary forces in the civil war (October 2015)
- Brig. Gen. Mohammad-Ali Allah-Dadi (January 18, 2015)
- Brig. Gen. Abdollah Eskandari (May 2014)
- Brig. Gen. Esmail Haydari (July 2013)
- Brig. Gen. Hassan Shateri (February 2013)