The Iranian general killed in last week’s strike in Syria’s capital was a member of Hezbollah’s Shura Council, the Iran-backed terror group’s decision-making body, a source close to the organization says.
The April 1 airstrike leveled the Iranian embassy’s consular annex in Damascus, killing seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including two generals.
One of them was Mohammed Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the Quds Force, the Guards’ foreign operations arm which is classified as a terror organization by the US.
Zahedi was the only non-Lebanese on Hezbollah’s eight-member Shura Council, the equivalent of the powerful Shiite Muslim movement’s political bureau, led by Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, the source says, requesting anonymity because the matter is sensitive.
In a previous speech, Nasrallah said his group “owed a lot” to the senior Iranian official.
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