Iranian high-ranking IRGC general killed in Syria
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Iran’s state-run media outlets said a high-ranking official of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was killed in Syria on Monday.
General Abolfazl Alijani, who was an IRGC Ground Force officer, was killed as he was serving as a “military advisor” in the country, according to Iranian state-run agencies.
Alijani hails from the central city of Esfahan.
His body will be returned to Iran in the coming days, according to Iran International.
Though Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside Syria over the past few years, targeting what it claimed to be Iranian-backed militia’s strongholds, the death of Alijani was not caused by any of them.
None of the agencies specified how Alijani was killed.
Iran officially took the side with the Syrian government at the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011. It announced sending military advisors to support the government forces in fighting against the Syrian opposition factions.
Iran continues to recruit Syrian fighters in the rank of its affiliated factions, following a policy of incentives by providing many offers, and taking advantage of the difficult living and economic conditions that Syria is going through.
Iran publicly supported and established military factions through which it used to implement its aspirations in Syria. Perhaps the National Defence Forces, the Liwa Fatemiyoun and Liwa Zainebiyoun factions are among the most prominent of these factions.