Tehran, IRNA – President Ebrahim Raisi in a message condoled martyrdom of Hassan Irlou, the late Iranian ambassador to Yemen, whose two brothers, too, had been earlier martyred.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh had earlier announced that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ambassador to Yemen Hassan Irlou had been martyred due to being affected by the COVID-19 virus.

Martyr Irlou was among the victims if chemical weapons used by the ousted regime of Saddam Hussain in its imposed war against Iran and when he was forwarded to Iran for remedy his health conditions were so deteriorated that none of the medical measures adopted to save his life worked and he was martyred at dawn of Tuesday, December 21, 2021.

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