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Sayyed Razi Mousavi

Sayyed Razi Mousavi (died 25 December 2023) was an Iranian IRGC-Quds Force major general.

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Sayyed Razi Mousavi joined the IRGC's paramilitary Quds Force during the 1980s, during which time he smuggled arms and funds to Lebanese Hezbollah from Syria. In 1990, he became head of the Iranian logistical division in Syria, and he faced multiple assassination attempts orchestrated by Israel during the Syrian Civil War. In 2023, he was killed in an Iranian airstrike on his residence in Sayyida Zainab, marking the highest-ranking killing of a senior Iranian general since the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in January 2020.

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