Iranian Fars news agency reported Sunday the death of a senior military commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) yesterday, Saturday, after being infected with the novel coronavirus recently.
The agency said that Major General Abdul Rasul Astwar Mahmoud Abadi, who was suffering from lung symptoms as a result of being attacked with a chemical weapon in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), died yesterday evening as a result of being infected with the COVID-19.
The agency stated that Mahmoud Abadi worked "shoulder to shoulder" with Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force, and his assistant Hussein Hamdani (killed in the city of Aleppo in 2015) in the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
The "Young Journalists Club" website, run by Iranian TV, published pictures of Abadi alongside the Iranian leader, Ali Khamenei and late Soleimani.
He established the Special Forces Division "Sabrin" in the IRGC, trained the ground forces in the Revolutionary Guards, commanded the military headquarters of "Medina" in southern Iran, and the headquarters of "Hamzah Syed al-Shuhada" in the northwest of the country, and headed the College of Science and Martial Arts.
Abadi is considered one of the battle commanders during the Iran-Iraq war, as he commanded the "19 Fajr" and 35 "Imam Hussein" brigades against the Iraqi forces, on the southern and southwestern fronts.
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