Following news of the assassination of a Revolutionary Guard commander on the Syrian-Iraqi border, a senior official responds



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Ali Rabiei, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, denied knowing that a Revolutionary Guard commander had been the target of an airstrike with a drone on the Iraqi-Syrian border.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said: “I have not received any reports of a drone attack on a leader of the Revolutionary Guard on the Syrian-Iraqi border.”

Earlier, the Iranian Tasnim news agency quoted an informed source as denying the reported death of Muslim Shahdan, one of the leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, during a drone raid on the Iraqi border with Syria.

In this regard, the Iranian agency said: “An informed source denied rumors of an airstrike on Iranian sites, vehicles and advisers on the Syrian-Iraqi border … And the media affiliated with the Zionist regime reported that an Iranian commander was killed. in this airstrike. “

And the media reported, citing Iraqi sources, that Muslim Shahdan was killed in a drone strike Sunday night, and that three of his companions were also killed.

The Tasnim news agency considered that such statements occurred in the context of the assassination of Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, “with the aim of influencing public opinion.”

Fakhrizadeh was killed in Tehran province on November 27, as a result of which he was seriously injured and died in hospital.

The Iranian Defense Ministry confirmed that the scientist was the head of the Research and Innovation Organization in the ministry, while the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Muhammad Baqir Qalibaf, said Fakhrizadeh also held the position of deputy defense minister in the country.

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