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.

  • pandapoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    3 hours ago

    What sources?

    Do I have to cite the Bill of Rights every time I mention the second amendment?

    Water is wet, the Earth is round, and Hezbollah was formed in response to Israel’s invasions of Lebanon in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

    More accurately, it was a consolidation of various militant Shia factions and groups.

    In case you’re unaware, modern Islamic terrorism is almost exclusively a Sunni phenomenon, or more accurately, more fundamental offshoots and subsets of Sunni Islam e.g. Wahhabism.

    But sure, that’s just my recollection of past readings and I’m not going to go find the books I read to provide a bibliography.

    If I got anything grossly wrong in there, please call me out and show everyone how misinformed I really am.

    • Doom@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      17·
      2 hours ago

      Wow everything I already know condescending delivered by a complete asshole! How nice!

      Get off the high horse

      • pandapoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        41·
        2 hours ago

        That’s hilarious that you’re pretending you didn’t just spend the last 10 minutes Googling that shit.

        Because if you did know all that, as you claim, you wouldn’t be conflating Hezbollah with a terrorist group.

        So which is it? Do you have a basic grasp of the facts?

        Or do you believe they are a radical Islamic terrorist organization, just like Al-Qaeda and ISIS?