Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh underlined that the IRGC and the Iranian Army have always maintained their brotherly and amicable relations.
General Hajizadeh made the remarks on the anniversary of the operation that was launched as a response to the martyrdom of former Army Commander Lieutenant General Ali Sayyad Shirazi.
“The performance of the IRGC was not different in the revenge operations that were held after assassination of Army’s General Sayyad Shirazi and that of IRGC anti-terrorist commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani,” the senior IRGC commander said.
He noted that the revenge operation for the martyrdom of General Sayyad Shirazi was extremely important for the IRGC.
Ali Sayad Shirazi was the Iranian Army’s senior commander during the eight-year Iran–Iraq war in the 1980s.
He was assassinated in 1999 by the terrorist Mujahedin Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCRI) in 1999.
Shortly after the terrorist attack, the IRGC targeted the MKO base in Iraq by dozens of missiles.
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