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Iran is holding a funeral today for a senior military officer who was killed while assisting Iraqi forces battling Islamic State militants.
Brigadier General Hamid Taghavi was killed in the city of Samarra, north of the Iraqi capital, the Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement published yesterday. He was on an advisory mission to help Iraqi forces, it said.
While Iran isnt involved in the U.S.-led coalition seeking to repel the Islamic States advances, Iran has sent military advisers to assist in the fight. The Islamic republic also enjoys influence among Iraqs Shiite militias and within the government of Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi.
The funeral for Taghavi, who was a military commander during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, will be held in Tehran today, local media including the Shargh newspaper reported.
Taghavis father and brother were also martyred during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, the Guards said in the statement. The officers will be buried tomorrow in his hometown, the southern city of Ahvaz.
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Published December 29, 2014
Iranian civilians and armed forces members carry the flag draped coffin of Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi, a senior Revolutionary Guard commander who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq, in his funeral ceremony outside the Guard compound in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2014. The Guard said Sunday that Taqavi was "martyred while performing his advisory mission" in Samarra, a town north of Baghdad that is home to a major Shiite shrine. He is the highest ranking Iranian officer known to have been killed abroad since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, in which he fought. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)(The Associated Press)
Civilians and armed forces members carry the flag draped coffin of Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi, a senior Revolutionary Guard commander who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq, in his funeral ceremony outside the Guard compound in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2014. The Guard said Sunday that Taqavi was "martyred while performing his advisory mission" in Samarra, a town north of Baghdad that is home to a major Shiite shrine. He is the highest ranking Iranian officer known to have been killed abroad since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, in which he fought. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)(The Associated Press)
A group of people and Iranian Revolutionary Guard members carry the flag draped coffin of Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi, a senior Revolutionary Guard commander who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq, in his funeral ceremony outside the Guard compound in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2014. The Guard said Sunday that Taqavi was "martyred while performing his advisory mission" in Samarra, a town north of Baghdad that is home to a major Shiite shrine. He is the highest ranking Iranian officer known to have been killed abroad since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, in which he fought. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)(The Associated Press)
A group of women mourn during the funeral ceremony of Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi, a senior Revolutionary Guard commander who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq, shown in the poster above, outside the Guard compound in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2014. The Guard said Sunday that Taqavi was "martyred while performing his advisory mission" in Samarra, a town north of Baghdad that is home to a major Shiite shrine. He is the highest ranking Iranian officer known to have been killed abroad since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, in which he fought. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)(The Associated Press)
Civilians and armed forces members carry the flag draped coffin of Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi, a senior Revolutionary Guard commander who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq, in his funeral ceremony outside the Guard compound in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2014. The Guard said Sunday that Taqavi was "martyred while performing his advisory mission" in Samarra, a town north of Baghdad that is home to a major Shiite shrine. He is the highest ranking Iranian officer known to have been killed abroad since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, in which he fought. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)(The Associated Press)
TEHRAN, Iran The funeral has been held for a senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq.
State TV says the funeral on Monday for Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi was held in a Guard compound in Tehran. He will be buried in his hometown Ahvaz in southeastern Iran on Tuesday.
The Guard said Sunday that Taqavi was "martyred while performing his advisory mission" in Samarra, a town north of Baghdad that is home to a major Shiite shrine. He is the highest ranking Iranian officer known to have been killed abroad since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Shiite Iran says it has sent military advisers to help government forces in Syria and Iraq, but denies sending combat troops.
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Tehran, Dec 29 (IANS): The anti-Iran terrorist group, Mujahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO), has openly expressed support for the Islamic State (IS) militants and their acts of terror in a clear indication of its wrath over Iran-Iraq cooperation against the group.
In a statement, the MKO said any measure against IS would be a blatant violation of the UN Security Council's agreements, a Press TV report Monday quoted Iran's official news agency, IRNA.
The terrorist organisation also called for an immediate end to the moves against the IS militants.
The statement, without making any reference to the all-out cooperation among Iraqi Sunnis, tribes and army in the anti-IS fight, claimed that cooperation between Tehran and Baghdad in the battle against the IS terrorist group pursues anti-Sunni agendas.
The IS terrorists control some parts of Syria and Iraq. They are engaged in crimes against humanity.
Earlier this month, Press TV reported that Israel was training the MKO terrorists in Jordan along the border with Saudi Arabia in order to carry out acts of terror inside Iran and neighbouring Iraq.
"The MKO terrorists are undergoing training on how to conduct terrorist operations in Iran and Iraq and are also receiving technical as well as information technology (IT) training from Israeli agents, said a source on condition of anonymity.
The MKO fled Iran to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq's executed dictator, Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.
The group is also known to have cooperated with Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds, report said.
The MKO has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.
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