Nasser Shabani (; – 13 March 2020) was an Iranian general and senior commander of

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, is a multi-service primary branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces, Iranian Armed Forces. It was officially established by Ruhollah Khom ...

(IRGC). He took credit for using Houthi rebels to target Saudi oil tankers.

Career

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

. 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 Sar-Allah Headquarters. In 2018, he stated in Iranian state media that the IRGC ordered the Houthi forces in

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to attack two Saudi oil tankers on the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

Death

Shabani died from

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on 13 March 2020.

References

2020 deaths Place of birth missing Year of birth missing Place of death missing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps brigadier generals Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran 1950s births {{COVID-19-stub