Sayyed Razi Mousavi, a senior officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria’s Damascus, Iranian media reported on Monday. In a statement carried by local media outlets, the IRGC confirmed the death, adding that it will respond to the strike.
Mousavi “was killed during an attack by the Zionist regime a few hours ago in Zeinabiyah district in the suburbs of Damascus,” IRNA news agency reported. It used a different name for Sayeda Zeinab, or Sitt Zaynab as it is more commonly called, south of the Syrian capital.
IRNA added that Mousavi was “one of the most experienced advisors” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria. He was responsible for coordinating a military alliance between Iran and Syria. It is believed that he was involved in Tehran’s efforts to supply weapons to Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
The IRGC said that “the usurping and barbaric Zionist regime will pay for this crime.” Israel has not responded to the allegations.
Iran’s state television interrupted its regular news broadcast to announce that Mousavi had been killed. It said he had been “among those accompanying Qassem Soleimani,” the head of the IRGC’s elite Quds Force, who was killed in a United States drone attack in Iraq in 2020.
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