Israeli air strikes destroyed the Iranian embassy's consular annex in Damascus on Monday, Syrian and Iranian officials said, with a top Revolutionary Guard commander among seven members the force said were killed.
Israeli air strikes destroyed the Iranian embassy's consular annex in Damascus on Monday, Syrian and Iranian officials said, with a top Revolutionary Guard commander among seven members the force said were killed. Israel said it would not comment on the attack, but Iranian officials vowed a stiff response, with fears of even further violence between…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps named Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and another high-ranking officer, Brigadier General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, as among seven of its members killed. AFP reporters saw the annex building had caved in, and emergency services were searching for victims under the rubble as sirens wailed in the upscale Damascus district of Mazzeh.
Iranian state TV said Zahedi — a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ foreign operations arm, the Quds Force — was among the dead. “This crime will not pass without the enemy receiving punishment and revenge,” Hezbollah said in a statement.Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Tuesday summoned the Swiss embassy’s chief of mission, who serves as a representative for the United States, in lieu of an American diplomatic mission in Tehran.Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad also denounced the attack after visiting the site, calling it a “heinous terrorist attack… killing a number of innocent people.”.
The Damascus strike came three days after the Observatory reported that Israeli strikes had killed 53 people in Syria, including 38 soldiers and seven members of Hezbollah. Israel’s retaliatory campaign, aimed at destroying Hamas, has killed at least 32,845 people, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza health ministry.Before flagging, please keep in mind that Disqus does not moderate communities. Your username will be shown to the moderator, so you should only flag this comment for one of the reasons listed above.
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