Terrorists Kill Journalists to Prevent Coverage of Anti-Terror Victories (Iranian News)

[TomSea]

Source: Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA)
Translated by: IFP

Terrorists Kill Journalists to Prevent Coverage of Anti-Terror Victories

Thamir Sandooq, the cameraman of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), was wounded in a recent mortar shell attack by terrorists in Syria’s Aleppo.

Mohsen Khazaei, the IRIB correspondent in Syria, lost his life in this attack.

In an interview with IRNA, as translated by IFP, Sandooq said the attack was launched on Western Aleppo on Saturday, November 12, when they were covering the victories of Syrian army in the fight against terrorism.

“We were attacked by a mortal shell in a street in Western Aleppo. It was probably fired from Mansoureh district whose control is still in terrorists’ hands,” he noted.

“Given the responsibility reporters have in such situations, which is the coverage of victories achieved by Syrian army and the Resistance front, the hostile move [the terrorist attack] was aimed at preventing the coverage of these victories,” Sandooq added.

Read More At: http://ifpnews.com/news/world/crisis/2016/11/terrorists-kill-journalists-prevent-coverage-anti-terror-victories/

[LateForLunch]

Very possible.  But then the Iranians are notorious liars so it's possible that it was just a lucky shot (owing to the fact that mortars are very difficult to aim with accuracy). I note that the article headline claims that this is some sort of pattern but doesn't site any other incidents.

Since ISIS is Sunni (Salafist) and Iran is a Shiite regime (which has made some recent partnerships with the Shiite Alawite Assad faction) they are never going to get along very well and have a long history of BS related to their wars.