A senior officer in the Iran regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has died of injuries sustained while serving in Syria, state media in the Islamic Republic reported on Thursday.
Col. Ahmadreza Afshari, who served as an IRGC advisor in the organization’s aerospace division, was reportedly wounded in an airstrike sometime between late July and early August.
Although the country responsible for the fatal incursion was not specified, Israel and the United States may have conducted aerial operations in Syria targeting allies of the Iranian regime during the period mentioned for the colonel’s demise.
Since the Syrian Civil War broke out in 2011, the IRGC has been providing the government of Bashar al Assad with financial, logistical, and material support as Tehran believes that maintaining the dictator’s power is critical to its regional interests.
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