On May 26 Iranian “commander Sardar (General) Abdullah Eskandari… was killed on Monday in clashes in Damascus.”
News of his death was announced on Iranian state-run television and reported by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCR-Iran).
According to NCR-Iran, Eskandari was a “senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).” He was also “the head of a state-run foundation in Fars province in Iran.”
He also commanded ground forces for the IRGC.
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