Eight Iranians, two of them Revolutionary Guards forces, have been killed in Syria in recent days after Tehran increased its advisory missions to help Damascus, a guards spokesman said Friday, APA reports quoting AFP.
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A former bodyguard of Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been killed in Syria while defending a religious site near Aleppo, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Friday. The number of Iranian casualties in Syria has risen in recent days.
Iran is a longtime ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and has provided crucial economic and military backing throughout the uprising and subsequent civil war.
Fars news agency also reported Reza Khavari, “one of the leaders of Fatemiyoun Brigade was killed in Syria while on duty”.
Amir-Abdollahian also stressed that the Islamic Republic has military advisers in Iraq and Syria “at the request of the two countries’ governments”.
Bagheri, 33, was former President Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s personal bodyguard and was killed in the northern city of Aleppo.
“Today, two of IRGC’s Ansar forces were martyred in Syria”.
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So far a few 400 fighters (56 of them were Iranians, the rest Afghani) which have been killed by Syrian opposition groups including Islamic State (IS) have been buried in Iran, according to the report.
