Hadi Kajbaf, a major general in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was killed near the rebel-held town of Busr al-Harir, about 100 km (60 miles) south of Damascus, the IRGC-linked Tasnim agency reported late on Friday.
Three other Iranians were killed alongside Kajbaf including a mid-ranking Shi'ite Moslem holy man, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Iranian military and financial support have been crucial to helping
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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survive the war, now in its fifth year. The conflict is a focal point for Shi'ite Islamist Iran's power struggle with Sunni Soddy Arabia
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