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| Subject: To hell with him: Funeral for Iranian senior Revolutionary Guard leader Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:16 pm | |
| Prominent Iranian politicians and clerics have led mourners at a funeral for a senior commander of the country's Revolutionary Guards.
Gen Hassan Shateri was killed on Wednesday while travelling from Syria to Lebanon, the semi-official news agency Fars.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi condemned the killing as a "terrorist act".
Exact details of how and where he died remain unclear.
It is not known whether Gen Shateri was killed on the Lebanese or Syrian side of the border, although an Iranian official in Damascus told the Associated Press news agency that he had been killed within Syria.
Revolutionary Guards spokesman Gen Ramazan Sharif was quoted as saying that "mercenaries and supporters" of Israel were responsible for the killing, though it was not clear to whom he was referring.
The Israeli military has made no comment on the incident.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21466851 |
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