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Posted on 06/13/2015 3:38:55 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Yet another senior Iranian general has been killed fighting in Syria to prop up President Bashar al-Assad's regime, Iranian news agencies revealed late on Friday.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Maj. Gen. Hadi Kajbaf was killed in April around 60 miles south of Damascus, near the rebel-hold town Busr al-Harir, according to the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim as cited by Reuters. His body was shipped back to Iran last Friday.
Another three Iranian soldiers were killed alongside the general, including a mid-ranking Shi'ite cleric, reported the state-run Fars News Agency.
Kajbaf's rank was the highest in Iran's military, meaning he was among the most senior losses the Islamic regime has suffered in Syria, and of a more senior rank than the IRGC brigadier general killed in January by an IDF strike near the Golan Heights as he was reportedly planning an attack on Israel.
Kajbaf's son Sajad Kajbaf told Tasnim that his father's body was to be flown to Iran on Friday night after a day's delay; he did not detail how Iran got the body back after rebel forces seized it upon his father's death.
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I’m guessing these five guys were not in foxholes on the front line.
I’ll bet that’s a pretty good guess.
Killed in April, body shipped in June?
Isn’t fast burial part of Islamic belief? Is the delay an insult to the enemy?
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We should just stay out. Muslim vs muslim = win/win
Maybe it took this long to pick up and put together the pieces?
Aw that’s a shame.
Or whatever it is they say.
Somewhere in Iran there is a very upset sheep.
"This Is Tragic News.
Oh, and Death to America!"
“In Iran, as elsewhere in Islam, it has long been said that a man should have sexual intercourse with ‘a woman for a son, with a goat for relief and with a boy for pleasure’. John Laffin, Dagger of Islam, Sphere Publishing, 1981, Page 99 in a footnote.
Or maybe “it’s summer and we’re running out of ice.”
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