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  1. Apr 2, 2024 · Tehran, Iran – Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been assassinated by Israel in Syria. He was killed with six ...

  2. Apr 3, 2024 · He had significant career overlaps with the late Ahmad Kazemi, who was killed in a mysterious plane crash in 2006. Kazemi commanded both the IRGC’s ground force and air force, and Zahedi succeeded him in both positions. Like Zahedi, Kazemi hailed from Isfahan and commanded the 14th Imam Hossein Division at one point during the Iran-Iraq War.

  3. Apr 2, 2024 · General Zahedi was killed with two other Quds Force generals: Gen. Hossein Aminollahi and Gen. Mohammad Hadi Haj Rahimi, General Zahedi’s deputy. Both men were also veterans of wars in the ...

  4. Apr 2, 2024 · Al-Ain says that Zahedi is the “fourth prominent leader of the Revolutionary Guards to be assassinated,” since December. Iran has blamed Israel for the attack. He was killed in an airstrike on ...

  5. Apr 3, 2024 · Born in 1960, Mohammad Reza Zahedi enlisted in the newly formed Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in 1980, the year following the overthrow of the pro-Western Shah by a Shiite theocracy in Tehran. He advanced quickly through the ranks. In the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, which cost almost a million lives, he was just twenty years old and heading a battalion of men. He coordinated the recruitment ...

  6. Apr 1, 2024 · Zahedi is believed to be the most senior Iranian representative ever killed on Syrian soil, often accompanying the IRGC Commander-in-Chief on his trips to the Levant. This high-ranking member of the elite al-Quds force led the air and ground forces of this branch of the Revolutionary Guards, which specializes in operations abroad. According to ...

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  8. Apr 1, 2024 · Senior commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi, and his deputy General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi were among those killed, the group said in a statement. The IRGC has strongly condemned the attack. Image ...

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