Military spokesman: Two Iranian experts were killed in northern Yemen

English - Tuesday 29 June 2021 الساعة 04:21 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:

The government forces announced the killing of two Iranian military experts at the Khanjar front in Al-Jawf Governorate, northern Yemen.

The spokesman for the Sixth Military Region, Rabee Al-Qurashi, said that "the two Iranian experts were killed at the Khanjar front, while they were going to file reports, accompanied by the Houthi leader Abu Hashem Al-Qaboos, commander of the Special Guard of Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi."

He added that "the first expert is called (Idris Asghar) and belongs to the Quds Force, Brigade 14 - Division 22 Mahdi, while the second expert is called (Rahana Bahram) and belongs to the 15th Brigade Hamza."

A spokesman for the Sixth Military Region published a picture that he said was "of one of the dead Iranian experts, showing him alongside Iranian Revolutionary Guards member Hassan Irloo, who is impersonating an ambassador in Sanaa.