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Eugene

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Mon Nov 4, 2013, 11:07 AM Nov 2013

Iran Revolutionary Guards commander killed in Syria

Source: Reuters

Iran Revolutionary Guards commander killed in Syria

DUBAI | Mon Nov 4, 2013 8:47am EST

(Reuters) - A commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has been killed in Syria after volunteering to defend a Shi'ite shrine in Damascus, the Iranian Mehr news agency said on Monday.

Commander Mohammad Jamalizadeh of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the southeastern province of Kerman was killed in the last few days by "Wahhabi terrorists", the agency said, giving no more details.

The report could not be independently confirmed.

Jamalizadeh was a veteran of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and then served in anti-smuggling units. He did not travel to Syria for the IRGC, but volunteered to defend the Sayyida Zainab mosque in the southern suburbs of Damascus, Mehr said.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/04/us-syria-crisis-iran-idUSBRE9A30H620131104
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"Wahhabi terrorists". bemildred Nov 2013 #1
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