By Emil Ilgar – Trend:
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct.28
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ major General Gholamreza Samaei was killed in Syria, Mizan news agency, the official website of Iran’s Judiciary System reported.
Gen.Samaei was killed on Oct.26, the report said without giving further information about the place and details.
The report said that he was in Syria, to provide consultancy to the Syrian army.
Before, another IRGC’s high ranking official Gen. Ahmad Gholami was killed in fighting with the Islamic State (IS, ISIS,ISIL) terrorist group near Aleppo in northern Syria on Aug. 30, Iran’s ISNA news agency reported.
Both Samaei and Gholami were the IRGC commanders during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988).
Over the past few years and since the crisis broke out in Syria and Iraq, several commanders of the IRGC have been reportedly killed in clashes with "terrorists".
Iranian officials have constantly denied that their servicemen have boots on ground in Syria and Iraq, saying the officers of the Islamic Republic are in Syria and Iraq as advisers at official request from both countries' governments.