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Former IRGC commander’s comments on Syria censored

After a former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp commented about Hezbollah and the formation of an Iranian committee to help rebuild Syria, the story was censored and the article removed.

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A screen capture of an article on former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Hussein Hamedani is displayed on the Fars News website May 4, 2014. — Fars News

A former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps was censored after he made comments about the formation of an Iranian committee to plan for Iranian provinces to rebuild Syrian provinces and the establishment of a second Hezbollah inside Syria. An article published about the comments was taken down.

General Hussein Hamedani’s comments were made at the administrative council of Hamedan province. The full Fars News article is still available via Google's cache.

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