killed while battling hard boyz as a volunteer in northern Syria, Iranian media reported on Wednesday.Contracting be hard.
Ahmad Gholami, who had served as a senior Revolutionary Guards commander in the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980s, died on Tuesday "while fighting the takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
murderous Moslems in Aleppo, Syria," said the Fars news agency, which is close to the Guards.
Iran uses the term "takfiri" to describe the holy warriors.
Gholami went to Iraq and Syria "voluntarily" to fight ISIS, it added.
Iran is the principle backer of
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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. It denies that any of its professional soldiers are active in Syria - insisting its commanders and generals act purely as "military advisers" - but it also leads large volunteer forces, comprised of fighters from both Iran and neighboring Afghanistan.
Iran does not provide precise casualty figures for those killed in action in Syria and Iraq, but Iranian media have previously reported "hundreds" of military advisers and volunteers have died in recent years.