A brigadier general in the Iranian Revolutionary Army, he was one of the most important leaders of the Iranian military establishment and was directly responsible for coordinating and supporting the so-called “Axis of Resistance” and participated in the Iran-Iraq War. (1980-1988), and Iranian sources say he left a major mark on strengthening the military capabilities of all Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance movements from the Gaza Strip.

Mousavi is considered one of the senior Iranian military advisers to the “Anti-Axis Support Unit” and one of the oldest advisers to the Quds Force. The unit tasked with external operations in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the most experienced and even the second-highest ranking military officer in the corps, has been killed outside Iran since General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US strike near Baghdad International Airport. Dawn on January 3, 2020.

Birth and Nurture

Reza Mousavi, born in 1962 in the city of Zanjan, west of the Iranian capital Tehran, is married, but there is not enough information about his family members. He grew up in his hometown and attended elementary and middle school there.

Military experience

Before he finished middle school, Mousavi participated in the mobilization volunteers for seven years in the Iran-Iraq War, after which he officially joined the Revolutionary Guards, where he served as the commander of the Imam Hussein Corps.

He also served as an aide to Quds Force Deputy Commander Major General Muhammad Hejazi, who died in April 2021 and his duties were handed over to Reza Mousavi.

Iranian reports say that in the 25 years before his assassination, he worked between Lebanon and Syria, representing the Iranian military establishment, and working to find a channel for logistical traffic to Lebanese Hezbollah, the so-called “Axis of Resistance.” , Palestinian resistance movements and the Syrian regime.

After participating with Hezbollah in the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, Mousavi participated as a military adviser in several of the Syrian regime's battles against the armed opposition after 2011, particularly on the desert front and near Damascus and Aleppo.

Diplomatic experience

Although Iranian obituaries confirmed that Major General Radhi Mousavi was in charge of the support unit of the Quds Force in Lebanon and Syria, Hossein Akbari, the Iranian ambassador to Damascus, characterized him as “a diplomat and second counselor at the Tehran embassy in Syria”. “Mr. Radhi Mousavi holds a diplomatic passport and diplomatic residence in Damascus,” he asserted.

In a statement to Iran's Mehr Agency, Akbari said, “Mousavi stayed at our country's embassy until two in the afternoon, then he left his workplace and went to his residence and home in Sayyida Zainab area in the Damascus countryside.

Massacre

Radhi Mousavi was killed on Monday afternoon, December 25, 2023, following a missile attack on his home in the Sayeda Zeinab area of ​​the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Iran accused Israel of assassinating him, and the Revolutionary Guard vowed that “the usurping Zionist organization will pay the price for the assassination.”

As for Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian, he threatened Tel Aviv in a tweet on the “X” site to “wait for a tough countdown”.

Radi Mousavi, one of the senior commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria, has been the target of several assassination attempts by Israel, Iranian sources say.