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Four Iran revolution guards killed in Syria in two days

Politics Materials 5 November 2015 10:17 (UTC +04:00)
Four members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have been killed in Syria over the past two days
Four Iran revolution guards killed in Syria in two days

Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov.5

By Khalid Kazimov - Trend:

Four members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have been killed in Syria over the past two days.

Nasrollah Mohammadi, Eshaq Moradi and Qorbanali Ahmadi were buried in Iranian central city of Kashan Nov. 4, IRNA news agency reported.

On the same day Iranian judiciary's official website Mizan reported that another general, Mohsen Fanousi was also killed in Syria on Nov 3.

It appears that the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies have intensified their military operations against the armed opposition groups over the past weeks.

Iran has officially confirmed that the number of its casualties in the Syrian crisis has increased, with unconfirmed reports suggesting that more than 30 Iranian servicemen have been killed in Syria over the past month.

The death toll has hiked amid the peace talks aimed at putting an end to the Syrian conflict.

The allies and opponents of President Bashar are planning to resume peace talks within two weeks, after the first round of talks held in Vienna on Oct. 30 failed to reach agreement on al-Assad's fate.

Earlier on Nov 3 semi-official Fars news agency reported that two commanders of the Fatemiyun Brigade, Ezatollah Soleimani and Seyyed Ali Hosseini-Alemi, known as "Abusajjad", as well as Seyyed Sajjad Hosseini, who was an artillery specialist, were killed during a military operation dubbed Muharram, conducted against armed opposition groups in Syria.

Following the outbreak in Syria, Iran set up the Fatemiyun brigade of Shia fighters to support President Bashar al-Assad's government.

Iran denies that it has deployed soldiers to fight in Syria, and says it only provides the Syrian army with military advisers.

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