TEHRAN, Apr. 10 (MNA) – The twenty-fourth martyrdom anniversary of the Iranian top army general Ali Sayyad-Shirazi was commemorated in a ceremony on Monday morning in Tehran.
Lieutenant-General Ali Sayyad-Shirazi was an Iranian Army General who served as Commander of the Army Ground Force during the Iran–Iraq War. He was assassinated by the notorious terrorist organization Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) in 1999 while serving as the Deputy-chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces.
Top and senior IRGC and army officials attended the commemoration ceremony.