Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement late Monday that two commanders and five of its officers were killed in a strike in Damascus close to the Iranian consulate.
Mohammad Reza Zahedi
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement late Monday that two commanders and five of its officers were killed in a strike in Damascus close to the Iranian consulate.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Iranian Quds Force commander in Syria and Lebanon, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, was killed alongside his deputy, Haji Rahimi.
In addition, Hussein Amir Allah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Chief of Staff in Syria and Lebanon, was killed, along with two other Iranians.
Shaken by the accuracy of Iran's attacks on Bahrain and support for them among some Bahrainis, authorities in the Gulf island nation have launched a crackdown on Shi'ite Muslim clerics they accuse of fostering allegiance to Tehran at home.
Iran has sent the United States a nuclear proposal via Qatar, to be discussed only after Washington meets Tehran’s seven demands, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin received Iran’s Supreme National Security Council chief Mohsen Rezaei at the Kremlin on Thursday, the president’s office said, as tensions between Tehran and Washington remain high.
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