Abbas Abdollahi (died 14 February 2015) was a colonel of the IRGC of Iran who was one of Iran's most-decorated snipers and a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War. He fought and died in the Syrian Civil War.
Biography[]
Abbas Abdollahi served in the Pasdaran during the Iran-Iraq War and became one of Iran's most decorated snipers. He later rose to the rank of Colonel in the IRGC, and he was sent to assist the Syrian Arab Republic in putting down the Free Syrian Army and their allied militias during the Syrian Civil War. He was killed in the Southern Syria Offensive of early 2015 by the Alwiya al-Furqan group of the Syrian opposition, and they released a video confirming that he had been killed.