Iran says 7 of its Guard members killed in Damascus strike, including 2 generals

By Emanuel Fabian

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1 April 2024, 10:26 pm

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Emergency and security personnel gather at the site of alleged Israeli strikes which hit a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Syria's capital Damascus, on April 1, 2024. (Maher Al Mounes/AFP)

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a statement carried by Iranian media officially announce the deaths of seven members in the alleged Israeli strike in Damascus earlier today.

Among the seven are Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the most senior IRGC Quds Force commander in Syria, and his deputy, Mohammad Haj Rahimi.

Zahedi was the Quds Force official in charge of the unit’s operations in Lebanon and Syria.

Also listed among the dead are IRGC officers Hossein Aminullah, Seyyed Mahdi Jalalati, Mohsen Sadaqat, Ali Agha Babaei, and Seyyed Ali Salehi Rouzbahani.