A member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards navy in Syria was killed in a suspected Israeli strike on Friday, Iran's official news agency IRNA confirmed.
Local reports said Reza Zarei was killed along with two militias from Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group.
Zarei was killed in a strike on a building used by Iranian forces in Syria’s coastal region of Tartous, a senior security source from the alliance supporting Syria’s government told Reuters.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have scaled back deployment of their senior officers in Syria due to a spate of deadly Israeli strikes and were relying more on allied Shiite militia to preserve their sway there, Reuters reported in February.
