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“Iraqi” security officials and officials from local armed factions said today that an airstrike killed a commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on the Syrian-Iraqi border sometime on Saturday and Sunday, according to Reuters.
Reuters added: “Officials were unable to identify the commander, who said he was killed along with three other men who were with him in the same car.”
The agency separately cited two Iraqi security officials who said the car carried weapons across the Iraqi border and that he was injured after entering Syrian territory.
The two officials added that Iranian-backed Iraqi militias had helped recover the bodies. They did not give details or specify the exact moment of the accident.
“Reuters” cited “local military sources and sources of armed groups” to confirm the story, and Reuters could not independently verify that an Iranian leader had been killed.
The “Al-Arabiya” channel quoted Iraqi sources as saying that “the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Muslim Shahdan, was killed on the border with Syria by a drone after crossing the Al-Qaim crossing,” adding that ” the objective of the commander of the Revolutionary Guard was yesterday afternoon and he was assassinated with 3 bodyguards after crossing them. ” Port of Al-Qaim.
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