Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
, Iranian media reported.
Among the dead was the commander of Afghan volunteer unit the Fatemiyoun Brigade, the government daily Iran reported.
Alireza Tavassoli was killed in Daraa province, south of Damascus, on February 28 during heavy fighting with Syria's Al-Qaeda branch Al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front, the Rajanews.com website reported.
It said all seven of the dead being commemorated in Iran's second city Mashhad were Afghan volunteers.
The Wall Street Journal reported last May that Iran was recruiting Afghan refugees to fight in Syria, in exchange for $500 a month and residency permits.
Iran's foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham at the time dismissed the report as an "insult to the people of Afghanistan."
Iranian media have reported many Iranian deaths in the conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
But the authorities insist nearly all were volunteers who had gone to help guard the Shiite holy places in the two countries against Sunni faceless myrmidons from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group and Al-Qaeda.
The government acknowledges that it has a small number of military advisers in both Iraq and Syria but denies having any combat troops on the ground.
Revolutionary Guards General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi was killed along with six fighters of Leb's Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
in an Israeli air strike in Syria on January 18.
Brigadier General Hamid Taghavi was killed in the Iraqi shrine city of Samarra in December while advising Iraqi troops on the war against IS.