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2020-03-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Revolutionary Guard commander killed in Syria
[EN.ANNAHAR] An official with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard who took part in battles around war-torn Syria was killed near the Syrian capital, an Iranian semiofficial news agency and an opposition war monitor reported Saturday.

Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency identified the commander as Farhad Dabirian and said he was killed in the south Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab. The area is home to a holy shrine for Shiite Moslems.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the killing and Fars reported no additional details on how Dabirian was killed.

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
is an ally of Syria and has offered military advisers and sent gunnies and material support to help Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
’s government forces in the nine-year civil war.
Update from An Nahar at 8:20 p.m. EDT:
Iran's Fars news agency said that Dabirian had been "martyred", without specifying his rank or whether he was a member of the IRGC.

It said he was tasked with guarding a Shiite shrine south of the Syrian capital.

Iran has deployed personnel from the IRGC in Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad.

The Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria, called the death an "assassination" but did not suggest who was responsible.
Posted by Fred 2020-03-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Israeli air strike.
Posted by b 2020-03-08 07:13||   2020-03-08 07:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone is up for promotion.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-08 08:42||   2020-03-08 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Keep up the tempo of eliminating these commanders. Iran cannot afford the losses in the state it is in now.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-03-08 11:16||   2020-03-08 11:16|| Front Page Top

#4 based on where he was when he died Dabirian was probably on R&R

maybe he should have stayed in the combat area
Posted by lord garth 2020-03-08 11:41||   2020-03-08 11:41|| Front Page Top

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