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Tehran threatens response to killing of senior IRGC official in Syria in alleged Israeli strike
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatens to respond to the killing of a senior officer in Syria, allegedly in an Israeli airstrike.
In a statement carried by Iranian media, the IRGC confirms Brig. Gen. Razi Mousavi, a senior military adviser in Syria, was killed in a strike near Damascus.
Mousavi was responsible for coordinating a military alliance between Iran and Syria, and was believed to be heavily involved in Tehran’s efforts to supply weapons to proxies in the area, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
The IRGC says that “the usurping and barbaric Zionist regime will pay for this crime.”
