Monday 18 April 2016

IRAN: Ex-governor of Yazd injured in Syria war

IRAN: Ex-governor of Yazd injured in Syria war
IRAN: Ex-governor of Yazd injured in Syria war
NCRI – A former Iranian provincial governor was injured last week fighting in north-western Syria in the country’s civil war to keep dictator Bashar al-Assad in power, the Iranian regime’s state media have acknowledged.
The state-run news website Tabnak reported on Thursday, April 14 that Mohammad Reza Fallahzadeh a former General of the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and former governor general of Yazd Province, was injured during clashes in the south of Aleppo.
Fallahzadeh was injured on April 12 when the vehicle carrying him was hit by a mortar shell. He was transferred to Tehran for treatment the following day, the report said.
Fallahzadeh was the Governor of Yazd, central Iran, for six years during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Several other IRGC officers were killed in the recent clashes on the southern outskirts of Aleppo, according to a report by Al-Arabiya.

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