Report: Senior Iranian Official in Lebanon Killed
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 14, 2013 16:08Lebanese media say a senior Iranian official has been killed as he was returning fromSyriatoBeirut.
Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar TV said Thursday the chairman of the Iranian Council for Reconstruction inLebanon, Houssam Khosh Nweis, was killed Wednesday by “armed terrorist gangs.” The station gave no further details.
Iranis a staunch supporter of Hezbollah and a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
An Iranian independent news website said Wednesday that a senior commander ofIran’s Revolutionary Guard had been killed inLebanon.
Mashreghnews.ir named the commander as Gen. Hassan Shateri. It said he was the Guard’s leader inLebanonand oversaw Iranian-financed reconstruction projects.
The difference in the name could not immediately be reconciled, but Iranian military officials inLebanonoften work under an assumed name.
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