A prominent general in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.

A prominent general in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Iranian media reported Saturday.

The killing of Gen. Abbas Nilforushan marks the latest casualty suffered by Iran as the nearly yearlong Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Stripteeters on the edge of becoming a regional conflict. His death further ratchets up pressure on Iran to respond, even as Tehran has signaled in recent months that it wants to negotiate with the West over sanctions crushing its economy.

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Nilforushan served as the deputy commander for operations in the Guard, a role overseeing its ground forces. What he was doing in Lebanon on Friday wasn’t immediately clear. The Guard’s expeditionary Quds Force for decades has armed, trained and relied on Hezbollah as part of its strategy to rely on regional militias as a counterbalance to Israel and the United States.

  • ryathalEnglish
    35·
    2 months ago

    Hezbollah is at war with Israel, their general getting killed near Iranian officers is problematic. Just as it would be if a Ukrainian general was killed by Russia while meeting with a US Colonel.

    • pandapooEnglish
      52·
      2 months ago

      Your analogies keep leaving out location, which is very relevant here.

      A more accurate analogy would be Russia bombing a meeting between Ukrainian and American officers, that was happening in Warsaw.

      I don’t disagree that this is a significant event, I just disagree with your analysis and attribution.

      • pewter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        34·
        2 months ago

        Your analogy requires a powerful faction of people in Poland directly shooting rockets at Russian-occupied Ukraine. Still a significant event, but this descent continually shows the problem with analogies.

        • pandapooEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          It’s not my analogy, and I’ve already pointed out how bad it was, but they keep insisting on using it.

          But yes, I agree, it’s a shit analogy.

      • ryathalEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        Warsaw would make less sense. This was a strike in Lebanon against a Lebanon based terrorist group or political party if you prefer. That parties primary action has been from within Lebanon. There was no third country here.