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19th January 2015, 05:42 PM
Iran confirms death of general in attack .Mohammad Allahdadi died in alleged Israeli raid
Iran has confirmed that a general of its elite Revolutionary Guards has died in a suspected Israeli strike on Syria that also killed six members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Shia Iran and Hezbollah are Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's main regional allies in his war against the mainly Sunni rebels seeking to overthrow him.
"General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi and a number of fighters and Islamic Resistance [Hezbollah] forces were attacked by the Zionist regime's helicopters," a statement on the Revolutionary Guards' website said on Monday.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/iranian-general-killed-israeli-attack-201511912396636560.html
Iran has confirmed that a general of its elite Revolutionary Guards has died in a suspected Israeli strike on Syria that also killed six members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Shia Iran and Hezbollah are Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's main regional allies in his war against the mainly Sunni rebels seeking to overthrow him.
"General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi and a number of fighters and Islamic Resistance [Hezbollah] forces were attacked by the Zionist regime's helicopters," a statement on the Revolutionary Guards' website said on Monday.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/iranian-general-killed-israeli-attack-201511912396636560.html