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Fifth Iran Revolutionary Guards member dies after strike in Syria attributed to Israel
DUBAI — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said a fifth member has died after being wounded in a missile strike attributed to Israel in Syria earlier today, Iranian state media reports
An IRGC statement says Mohammad Amin Samadi “fell as a martyr after being among those wounded in today’s Zionist terrorist crime in Damascus.”
The deaths of four other Guards members, including the intelligence chief for Syria and his deputy, were reported earlier.