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by Israel Hayom / JNS.org
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a meeting, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Tehran, Iran, April 5, 2020. Photo: Official Presidential website/Handout via REUTERS.
JNS.org – A senior member of Iran’s elite Quds Force died of coronavirus, the country’s state-run Tasnim news agency reported Sunday.
Iran is widely considered the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism. The Quds Force is its extraterritorial black-ops arm and is heavily involved in the country’s attempts to expand its control over the Persian Gulf and the Middle East.
Brig. Gen. Abdolrasool Ostovar, formerly the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces, contracted coronavirus while on an “advisory mission” in Iraq in September, Tasnim reported.
Iranian media often uses the term “advisory mission” to describe Iranian military presence in countries such as Iraq and Syria.
According to the report, Ostovar had been in a coma for over two months before dying in an IRGC-run hospital in Tehran.
Iran’s Mehr news agency said Ostovar had fought in Syria and Iraq alongside Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone attack in Iraq on Jan. 3.
Several senior Iranian officers serving with the IRGC and the Quds Force have died since the pandemic reached Iran in February.
The Islamic Republic is the hardest-corona-hit country in the Middle East, with over one million recorded cases and 50,000 deaths.
