Saturday, October 10, 2015

Wikipedia:Hossein Hamadani: most recent Iranian general killed by ISIS

Hossein Hamadani

Hossein Hamadani

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Hossein Hamadani
Birth name Hossein Hamadani
Born January 1, 1955
Hamadan, Iran
Died October 7, 2015 (aged 60)
Aleppo, Syria
Allegiance  Iran
Service/branch IRGC-Seal.svg IRGC
Years of service 1970–2015[1]
Rank 18- Sartipp-IRGC.png Brigadier General
Unit Rassoulollah Corps
Battles/wars 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran
Iran-Iraq War
2009–2010 Iranian election protests
Syrian Civil War
Hossein Hamadani, also spelled Hamedani (1954 - 2015) (Persian: حسین همدانی‎‎), was an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander who served in Syria as both an advisor to the Syrian government during the Syrian Civil War and as overseer for Quds Force operations in support of the Syrian government.[2]
Hamadani first rose to prominence during the 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran and the Iran-Iraq War, where he helped suppress the Communist rebellion in Iranian Kurdistan. Mohammad Ali Jafari appointed him as Deputy Commander of the IRGC in 2005, and together they planned how to deal with any attempted "velvet revolution" in Iran. Hamadani subsequently helped to suppress the 2009 election protests in Iran.[3] He had been head of the IRGC’s Rassoulollah Corps in charge of Greater Tehran from November 2009 until January 2014,[4] and had been subject to international sanctions since 14 April 2011.[5][6]
Hamadani had also released a biography entitled Brother, It's Duty.[3]
Hamadani was killed by an alleged Islamic State attack in Aleppo, Syria on 7 October 2015.[7][8][9][10]

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  • "Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK" (PDF). Hm-treasury.gov.uk. Retrieved 2012-09-24.

  • http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2010-165/section-sched1-20111121.html

  • "Berater im Kampf gegen IS: Iranischer General in Syrien getötet". Der Spiegel (in German). 9 October 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.

  • Lizzie Dearden (9 October 2015). "Iranian commander Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani killed by Isis while advising Syrian regime". The Independent. Retrieved 9 October 2015.

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