An Iranian official on Thursday was killed by Syrian rebels in Syria while he was enroute to Lebanon via Damascus.
According to the statement issued by Iranian embassy in Beirut, “engineer Houssam Khosh Navis, an Iranian development official working in Lebanon, was killed by armed terrorist groups while he was returning to Beirut from the Syrian capital”.
Houssam Khosh Navis was in charge of “Iranian commission for the reconstruction of Lebanon” that was set up after the devastating war in 2006 between Israel and Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah militia, which is supported by Iran.
