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Key officers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) stationed in Syria have evacuated their positions in anticipation of a US strike, activists told dpa. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told dpa on Thursday that high-ranking commanders had left their positions along the Syrian-Iraqi border. “Some of the Iranian key advisors and commanders have withdrawn totally from their posts in al-Bou Kamal on the Syrian-Iraqi border,” Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the monitoring agency said. Abdel Rahman said that some top commanders moved to the Syrian capital Damascus and…