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TEHRAN (FNA)- The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps in a statement announced on Sunday that an IRGC war veteran commander, providing military counseling services to the Iraqi army and popular forces in their fight against the Takfiri terrorists, has been killed while defending the Shiite holy sites in the city of Samarra.
Brigadier General Hamid Taqavi, commander of IRGC's Ramazan Headquarters during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, was martyred by Takfiri terrorists in the city of Samarra while fulfilling his duty as military advisor and defending the city's holy Shiite shrines in there.
Brigadier General Taqavi was in Iraq to render military advice to the Iraqi army and popular forces in their fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists in the Arab country.
In September, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Gholam Ali Rashid announced that Iran's military advisors are present in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine to provide those nations with necessary military recommendations.
"Some of our commanders are in the field to give military advice to the Iraqi army, Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance movement," Major General Rashid said, addressing a conference attended by a group of senior military commanders in Tehran.
Samarra is a city in Iraq. It stands on the East bank of the Tigris River in the Salahuddin Governorate, 125 kilometers North of Baghdad. The city is the home to the Shrine of two Shiite Imams.
RIP.
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