Hamid Taqavi

War on ISIL According to the head of the Badr Organization, Hadi al-Amiri, he "was present in most of the important battles against ISIL and played a key role in the Liberation of Jurf Al Sakhar".

"Taqavi was killed while conducting an operation in cooperation with the Iraqi Army and Popular Mobilization Forces to counter ISIL militants in the vicinity of the Al-Askari shrine", according to a statement by Public Relations Department of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

On 30 December 2014, thousands of officers from the Revolutionary Guards gathered in Tehran for Taqavi's funeral, including Qasem Soleimani. Ali Shamkhani said "If people like Taqavi do not shed their blood in Samarra, then we would shed our blood in Sistan, Azerbaijan, Shiraz and Esfahan [to defend Iran]".