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Hundreds of mourners gathered Monday in Tehran for the funerals of Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria in an Israeli strike. It was the latest incident adding to regional tensions and fears of wider conflagration during the Israeli war on Gaza. The strike in Damascus on Saturday killed five members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the military force said. Iranian media later reported the victims included the group’s intelligence chief for Syria, and his deputy. Mourners carried aloft coffins bearing some of the victims, draped in colours of the Iranian flag, before a stage bea…

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