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News ID: 40019
Publish Date : 27 May 2017 - 21:31

IRGC Commander Martyred West of Mosul



TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- A senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) was martyred fighting Daesh west of the Iraqi city of Mosul, the Tasnim news agency reported Saturday.
"Commander Shaaban Nassiri was martyred in operations to free the area west of Mosul," the Tasnim news agency quoted the IRGC as saying. Nassiri was martyred near Baaj, one of the last cities which remain under Daesh control, near the Syrian border. Nassiri fought in the Iran-Iran war of 1980-1988 and has had a supervisory role in Syria.