Business Insider reports: Iran vowed revenge against Israel after a senior commander of Iran?s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was shot dead in southwestern Syria last week while traveling to Lebanon.
A closer look at General Hassan Shateri (aka Hessam Khosnevis) shows just how important this man was, and why Iran quickly blamed ?agents and supporters of the Zionist regime.?
Shateri was a senior officer in the IRGC?s elite Quds force ? the international arm of the Revolutionary Guards ? and reportedly ?the highest ranking Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officer to be killed outside Iran.?
Iran?s official Press TV described him as leading ?the Iranian-financed reconstruction projects in the south of Lebanon? ? where Shi?ites form a majority of the population ? for the last seven years.
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned ?Khosnevis? and others for supporting Hezbollah, describing Khosnevis as a provider of technical support of ?the terrorist group?s private communications network? and Iranian President Mahmoud. [Continue reading...]
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