A new member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been killed in northern countryside of Aleppo, activists said Sunday.
Mustafa Sader Zadeh was a senior commander in Fatemiyoun Brigade which is formed of Iran-based Afghan expatriates who are trained by Tehran to fight in Syria.
Zadeh's death came two days since two IRGC commanders had been killed in Syria, including an ex-bodyguard for Iran's former president, according to the Iranian media.
On Friday, Iran's Tasnim news agency quoted Ramezan Sharif, a spokesman for the IRGC, as saying "Abdollah Bagheri Niaraki and Karimi were martyred in Syria while protecting a religious site near Aleppo."
The spokesman gave no first name for Karimi.
Niaraki, who for a while was the bodyguard of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was killed on Thursday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Fars news agency also reported Reza Khavari, "one of the leaders of Fatemiyoun Brigade was killed in Syria while on duty.
This is not the first time Iran has announced the death of volunteer members of this brigade. The Iranian parliament rejected a bill last month that would have given nationality to the children of "non-Iranian martyrs."
Iran is the main regional ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has provided military and economic support during Syria's four-year-old civil war.
Sources told Reuters this month that hundreds of troops had arrived since late September to take part in a major ground offensive planned in west and northwest Syria, in the biggest deployment of Iranian forces yet.
Four Iranian commanders were killed this month fighting in Syria, and an IRGC commander was killed in June. (With Reuters)
Mustafa Sader Zadeh was a senior commander in Fatemiyoun Brigade which is formed of Iran-based Afghan expatriates who are trained by Tehran to fight in Syria.
Zadeh's death came two days since two IRGC commanders had been killed in Syria, including an ex-bodyguard for Iran's former president, according to the Iranian media.
On Friday, Iran's Tasnim news agency quoted Ramezan Sharif, a spokesman for the IRGC, as saying "Abdollah Bagheri Niaraki and Karimi were martyred in Syria while protecting a religious site near Aleppo."
The spokesman gave no first name for Karimi.
Niaraki, who for a while was the bodyguard of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was killed on Thursday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Fars news agency also reported Reza Khavari, "one of the leaders of Fatemiyoun Brigade was killed in Syria while on duty.
This is not the first time Iran has announced the death of volunteer members of this brigade. The Iranian parliament rejected a bill last month that would have given nationality to the children of "non-Iranian martyrs."
Iran is the main regional ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has provided military and economic support during Syria's four-year-old civil war.
Sources told Reuters this month that hundreds of troops had arrived since late September to take part in a major ground offensive planned in west and northwest Syria, in the biggest deployment of Iranian forces yet.
Four Iranian commanders were killed this month fighting in Syria, and an IRGC commander was killed in June. (With Reuters)
Zaman Al Wasl
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