BEIRUT: A senior Iranian official was shot dead in Syria by assailants while he was travelling by road towards the Lebanese capital from Damascus overnight, the Iranian authorities said on Thursday.
Hessam Khoshnevis, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander in charge of Tehran’s reconstruction assistance in Lebanon, was killed in an attack by “armed terrorist groups” on the road to Lebanon as he returned to Beirut from Damascus, the Iranian embassy in Lebanon said.
A commander was “martyred en route from Damascus to Beirut at the hands of Zionist regime mercenaries and backers,” and would be buried in his home town of Semnan in Iran on Friday, the force’s spokesman Ramezan Sherif said in the statement.
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