Iran announces death of senior military general

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Updated At : 01:31 PM Jun 02, 2024 IST

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Tehran, June 1

A high-ranking general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has died after an illness, Iran’s state TV reported Saturday. Gen. Vajihollah Moradi was one of the commanders of the Guard’s foreign wing, TV said.

He was also a comrade of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was slain in a US drone strike in Baghdad in 2020.

State TV said a funeral ceremony will be held in the northern city of Babolsar on Sunday.

Iran occasionally holds funerals for its soldiers fallen in Syria though officials say Iranian forces are there only as advisers. —AP

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