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2025-06-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Ex-bodyguard of Nasrallah killed in Israeli strike in Iran Saturday
[Naharnet] A former bodyguard for Sayyed
...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged...
His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
, the slain leader of Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
's Hezbollah, was killed Saturday in an Israeli strike in Iran, a Hezbollah official said.

For more than a week, Israel has been carrying out waves of air attacks on Iranian targets in the foes' worst confrontation in history.

Israel assassinated Nasrallah in a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on September 27 last year, during a war that left Hezbollah severely weakened.

His former bodyguard Hussein Khalil -- commonly known as Abu Ali, and nicknamed Nasrallah's "shield" -- was killed in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
near the Iraqi border, the Hezbollah official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

An Iraqi border guard officer told AFP that Khalil and a member of an Iraqi gang were killed by "an Israeli dronezap" after crossing into the neighboring country.

The Iraqi group, the Sayyed al-Shuhada Brigades, said that the commander of its security unit, Haider al-Moussawi, was killed in the "Zionist attack", along with Khalil and his son Mahdi.

The former bodyguard had appeared alongside Nasrallah for years during the leader's rare public appearances.

The two men also shared family ties, with one of Khalil's sons married to a granddaughter of Nasrallah.

During Nasrallah's funeral in February, Khalil stood atop the vehicle carrying the slain leader's body.

The funeral drew a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people, the first mass event organized by Hezbollah since the end of its war with Israel.

Separately, five children were maimed in Iraq on Saturday by fallen debris from a missile near the town of Dujail in the northern province of Salaheddin, security and medical sources told AFP on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the media.

The children sustained moderate and minor injuries, a medical source said.

A security source in the area confirmed the children were maimed by "a fallen fragment from a missile".

The origin of the missile was not clear.

Since Israel launched its unprecedented attack on Iran last week, Iranian missiles and drones have been crossing paths with Israeli warplanes in the skies over Iraq, forcing Iraq to close its airspace to commercial traffic.
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