— Fun fact: Brigadier General Ghaffari has been, according to most sources, the Commander-in-Chief of Iran’s ‘advisory forces’ in Syria since 2015. He was a close aide and companion of General Soleimani.

However, his presence and public image was so secretive, that Israeli intelligence estimated that no person called ‘Javad Ghaffari’ actually existed, and that he was made up by Iran.

This was until recently, when his image became slightly more public & his role as the IRGC’s overall commander in Syria became a known fact.

@Middle_East_Spectator