Iranian journalist Ali Norizadeh has reported that, according to a senior official in the office of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a delegation of senior Iranian officials, headed by Expediency Council chairman and former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezai, had been in Lebanon throughout the 2006 Lebanon war and had supervised Hizbullah's operations, planning, and battle room located in an underground base near Ba'albek.
Other delegation members were IRGC Al-Quds Forces commander Qassem Suleimani; former IRGC deputy commander Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr; and IRGC land forces commander Ahmad Kazemi.
A group of IRGC officers from a missile unit helped Hizbullah operatives aim the missiles at Israel.
The source also said that a special Al-Quds Forces unit had transferred the bodies of the two Israeli soldiers abducted at the beginning of the war from Lebanon to Iran.
Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, October 14, 2007
