Iran says body recovered of general killed in Lebanon alongside Nasrallah

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it has recovered the body of a senior Quds Force general killed in a massive air strike in Beirut last month alongside Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan is understood to have flown from Tehran to Beirut for a meeting with Nasrallah on the same evening that both were killed in the Israeli strike on Hezbollah’s operations room in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on 27 September.

In a statement late on Friday, reported by Iranian media, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said: “With hard work and efforts around the clock, the body of martyr Abbas Nilforoushan has been discovered.

“The time of transferring the body of martyr Nilforoushan to the Islamic homeland and the funeral and burial plans will be announced later.”

The IRGC’s statement comes with Iranian authorities facing continuing questions regarding the whereabouts of Esmail Qaani, the head of the Quds Force, who has not been seen in public since before the deaths of Nasrallah and Nilforoushan.

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