A brigadier general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and he was one of the most important leaders of the Iranian military establishment, and directly responsible for coordinating and supporting what is known as the “Axis of Resistance.” He participated in the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), and Iranian circles say that he left an important imprint in strengthening the military capabilities of everyone. From the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance movements in the Gaza Strip.
Mousavi is considered one of the senior Iranian military advisors to the “Resistance Axis Support Unit,” and one of the oldest advisors to the Quds Force. The unit entrusted with external operations in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, even the most experienced and the second-highest military rank in the Corps, was killed outside Iran, after General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in an American raid near Baghdad International Airport, at dawn on January 3, 2020.
Birth and upbringing
Reza Mousavi was born in 1962 in the city of Zanjan, located west of the Iranian capital, Tehran. He is married, but there is no sufficient information about his family members. He grew up in his hometown and attended primary and middle school there.
Military experience
Before he finished middle school, Mousavi participated in the Iran-Iraq war among the mobilization volunteers for a period of seven years, and after that he officially joined the Revolutionary Guard, where he served as commander of the Imam Hussein Corps.
He also worked as assistant to the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Quds Force, Major General Muhammad Hejazi, who died in April 2021, and his duties were entrusted to Reza Mousavi.
Iranian reports indicate that during the 25 years preceding his assassination, he moved between Lebanon and Syria, representing the Iranian military establishment, in what is known as the “Axis of Resistance,” and worked to find a channel for logistical transportation to the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Palestinian resistance movements, and the Syrian regime.
After participating alongside Hezbollah in the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006, Mousavi participated as a military advisor in many of the battles that the Syrian regime fought after 2011 against the armed opposition, especially on the desert fronts and the vicinity of Damascus and Aleppo.
Diplomatic experience
Although Iranian obituary data confirms that Major General Radhi Mousavi was responsible for the support unit of the Quds Force in Lebanon and Syria, the Iranian ambassador to Damascus, Hossein Akbari, classifies him as “a diplomat and the second advisor in the Tehran embassy in Syria,” stressing that “Mr. Radhi Mousavi was He has a diplomatic passport and diplomatic residency in Damascus.”
Akbari said in a statement to the Iranian Mehr Agency, “Mousavi was at our country’s embassy until two o’clock in the afternoon, then he left his workplace, heading to his residence and home in the Sayyida Zeinab area in the Damascus countryside.”
Assassination
Radhi Mousavi was killed on the afternoon of Monday, December 25, 2023, following a missile strike on his house in the Sayyida Zeinab area of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
Iran accused Israel of assassinating him, and the Revolutionary Guard vowed that “the usurping Zionist entity will pay the price for the assassination.”
As for Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, he threatened in a tweet on the “X” platform that Tel Aviv must “wait for a difficult countdown.”
Iranian circles say that Radhi Mousavi had been subjected to several assassination attempts by Israel as one of the senior commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria.
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2023-12-26 16:41:57
