KSBY citing an Iranian news website saying a senior commander from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has been killed in Syria.
Thursday’s report on Mizanonline.ir says Gen. Gholamreza Samaie, whose service dates back to the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, was killed in Syria on Wednesday. Samaie was also formerly posted to a remote area in east of Iran.
The report says he was in an advisory assignment in Syria. It did not elaborate.
Iranian regime is a main ally of Syrian dictator, Bashar Assad and Tehran has provided the regime of Syria with military and financial backing for years and has kept up its support since the uprising there began in 2011.