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NICOSIA — An Iranian commander has been killed in the Sunni revolt in Syria.

Officials said a commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed by Sunni rebels in Syria.

The officials identified the commander as Mohammed Jamali Paqale, said to have directed IRGC and Hizbullah units in central Syria.

On Nov. 4, Iran’s Mehr News Agency confirmed the death of Jamali. Mehr, aligned with the mullah regime, said Jamali’s body was brought to Iran and would be buried on the following day in the southeastern city of Kerman.

Few details were given on Jamali, Mehr said Jamali was killed in an attack on the Shi’ite Shrine of Zeinab near Damascus, deemed the headquarters of IRGC and Hizbullah in Syria.

Jamali was said to have been a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted from 1980 until 1988.

“This would appear to indicate a major operation,” Mehr said of the
battle in which Jamali was killed.

Jamali was also linked to IRGC-Quds Force, assigned to help the regime
of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Mehr said Jamali came from the same unit
as Quds Force commander Brig. Maj. Qassim Suleimani.

“Unfortunately, the brave commander was killed by assassins,” Mehr said.

IRGC confirmed the death of Jamali. But the elite Iranian force
reiterated that IRGC was not operating units in Syria.

“As we have repeated many times, Iran does not have any organized
battalions in Syria,” IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif said.

  Bashar Assad, Brig. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran IRGC commander directing Hizbullah troops killed by rebels in Syria, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohammed Jamali Paqale, Shrine of Zeinab