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Iran Revolutionary Guards colonel killed in strike in Syria

By Reuters
March 02, 2024
The file photo shows IRGC military advisor, Reza Zarei, who was killed in an Israeli attack in Syria on March 1, 2024. —Press TV
The file photo shows IRGC military advisor, Reza Zarei, who was killed in an Israeli attack in Syria on March 1, 2024. —Press TV

DUBAI: A member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards navy serving as a military adviser in Syria was killed in a suspected Israeli strike on Friday, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported.

Other Iranian media reports said Colonel Reza Zarei was killed along with two fighters from Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group.

Zarei was killed in a strike on a building used by Iranian forces in Syria’s coastal region of Tartous, a senior security source from the alliance supporting Syria’s government told Reuters.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have scaled back deployment of their senior officers in Syria due to a spate of deadly Israeli strikes and were relying more on allied Shi’ite militia to preserve their sway there, Reuters reported in February.