MESOP FLASH : BODYGUARD OF IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER KILLED ON ALEPPO FRONT?
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have confirmed that a high-ranking officer, who served as a bodyguard for the Supreme Leader, has been killed.However, the Guards did not confirm last week’s reports that Hassan Akbari died on the battlefront south of Aleppo city.Instead, Sepah News said Akbari died because of “weapon malfunction during a training mission”.Akbari will be buried on Monday morning in southern Tehran.
Syrian opposition sources claim that the officer was killed while visiting the south Aleppo front to prepare a report about the fighting for the Supreme Leader.Akbari with the head of Iran’s armed forces, General Hassan Firouzabadi, and the Supreme Leader:
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