Funeral Held for Iranian General Martyred in Syria

IQNA – A funeral procession was held in Tehran for General Kiomars Pourhashemi, an Iranian military adviser martyred in Syria.

Senior Iranian military and political officials and people from different walks of life attended the funeral on Saturday. 

The participants chanted slogans against the US and the Israeli regime at the funeral.

General Pourhashemi was martyred in an attack by Takfiri terrorist in an area near Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday night.

His body was taken to Imamzadeh Ali Akbar (AS) in Chizar, north of Tehran, to be laid to rest.

Iran has had an advisory mission in Syria sanctioned by Damascus to combat foreign-backed militants since 2011.

Takfiri terrorists led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a large-scale attack in Aleppo and Idlib provinces in the northwest of Syria on Wednesday, seizing several areas, according to some reports.

Since then, the Syrian government forces have been engaged in fierce clashes with the terrorists to regain ground.

“Our armed forces were able to inflict heavy losses on the attacking [terrorist] organizations and inflict hundreds of deaths and injuries among the terrorists’ ranks,” the General Command of the country’s Army and Armed Forces said in a statement on Friday.

The Syrian soldiers also “destroyed dozens of armored vehicles and [other] vehicles and were able to shoot down and destroy 17 drones,” it added.

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