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Apr 2, 2024 · Zahedi rose through the ranks and from 1983 to 1986 took command of an important brigade of IRGC ground forces that was used to break enemy lines in multiple major operations.
Apr 3, 2024 · This is one of the most important commands of the Quds Force, given its proximity to and liaising with Hezbollah, the crown jewel of the Islamic Republic’s proxies. Zahedi was on the radar of the United States and Israel for a long time and was sanctioned as a specially designated global terrorist by the U.S. government in 2010.
Apr 2, 2024 · Mohammed Reza Zahedi (AKA Hassan Mahdawi). Zahedi was the highest-ranking Iranian officer stationed in Syria. He commanded the Quds Force’s operational activity in the Syrian and Lebanese arenas, and in fact was the guide, integrator, and coordinator of the IRGC’s activity in those arenas and vis-à-vis proxy activity in those arenas, with an emphasis on Hezbollah and Shiite militias ...
Apr 2, 2024 · How important were the slain Quds Force commanders? Among the officers killed on Monday was Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a veteran of the Revolutionary Guards Corps and its external branch the Quds ...
Apr 4, 2024 · “It was Soleimani who appointed Zahedi commander of the Quds Force Lebanon Corps in 1998, a position he held until 2002, and to which he was reappointed in 2008,” it added. The US Department of Defense said the 2020 action was a “decisive step” to protect US personnel abroad, adding that Soleimani was “actively developing” plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq.
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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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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 ...
