TEHRAN – Colonel Mostafa Ezzatollah, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, died in the Syrian city of Aleppo while fighting against the Islamic State jihadists group and is the fourth Iranian senior military officer to die in the Syrian conflict in less than a month.

The Iranian Fars news agency, close to this military body in charge of the foreign military action in the Islamic Republic, reported that Ezzatollah died in northern Syria while carrying out his work as an “adviser” to the Damascus government in its fight against its enemies in the civil war that has plagued the country since 2011.

Since early October, Iran has acknowledged the death of a Revolutionary Guard general and two colonels in the Syrian conflict, all killed by the IS in the vicinity of the city of Aleppo.

In addition, it also recognized the death of another officer, Abdullah Baqeri Niyaraki, who was a bodyguard of the former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.