IRGC military adviser wounded in US-led coalition attack on Syria dies in Iran – World

DUBAI, August 15. /TASS/. A military adviser to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, the armed forces’ elite unit) who was wounded in Syria during an airstrike by the US-led coalition has died in Iran, IRGC commander Lieutenant General Hossein Salami said.

“Colonel Ahmadreza Afshari of the IRGC’s Aerospace Advisory Force, who was taken to Iran for treatment following an airstrike by coalition forces invading Syria, died today from injuries sustained in the airstrike,” Salami was quoted as saying by the Tasnim news agency.

According to the IRGC chief, the attack took place between July 22 and August 6.

Iranian military advisers are in Syria at the request of the Arab republic’s government and are acting as consultants in the fight against terrorist groups. Meanwhile, many IRGC soldiers have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Syria.

In fact, the American military contingent has no legal right to be in Syria. The presence of the US military is associated with the plunder of the Arab republic’s oil resources and increased economic pressure. “The Americans are blatantly violating Syria’s sovereignty and destabilizing the situation in order to prolong the occupation,” the Arab republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized.