{"id":2886,"date":"2020-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2020-06-12T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:04:33","slug":"nasser-shabani-militaryman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Nasser Shabani, militaryman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nasser Shabani \u2011 an Iranian general and senior commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) \u2013 succumbed to Covid-19 on 13 March 2020.<\/p>\n

He took credit for using Houthi rebels to target Saudi oil tankers.<\/p>\n

Shabani began his military career in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq War. He participated in suppressing the Amol uprising the same year. In the final year of the Iran-Iraq War, he was promoted to become one of several fronts of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He played a key role in Operation Mersad, and later wrote several books about the war. In 2011, he succeeded the president of the university of Imam Hussein and became one of the deputies of the Tharallah camp.<\/p>\n

In 2018, he stated in Iranian state media that the IRGC ordered the Houthi forces in Yemen to attack two Saudi oil tankers on the Bab al-Mandab Strait.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nasser Shabani \u2011 an Iranian general and senior commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) \u2013 succumbed to Covid-19 on 13 March 2020. He took credit for using Houthi rebels to target Saudi oil tankers. Shabani began his military career in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq War. He participated in suppressing the Amol uprising the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6365,46,7019],"tags":[4097,4162,4163],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Nasser_Shabani.jpeg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2850,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2850","url_meta":{"origin":2886,"position":0},"title":"Dr Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani, physician & politician","date":"March 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani \u2013an Iranian physician and reformist politician \u2013 succumbed to Covid-19 on 9 March 2020. 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