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Iran’s Khamenei fetes general behind ballistic missile attack
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has decorated the Revolutionary Guard’s aerospace commander for the Islamic Republic’s missile attacks on Israel, the ayatollah’s website says.
“Ayatollah Khamenei presented the Order of Fath to General Amirali Hajizadeh, commander of the Guards Aerospace Force,” it says. “Fath” is Farsi for “courage.”
The decoration was bestowed because of “the brilliant ‘Honest Promise’ operation,” the website says, referring to Tuesday’s largely unsuccessful ballistic missile on Israel.
Hajizadeh, 62, has headed the Guard’s aerospace unit since its creation in 2009.