Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday condemned Israel’s assault on his nation’s consular annex in Damascus, pronouncing the “cowardly crime will not go unanswered”.
“After repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its agenda in the struggle to save itself,” Raisi mentioned on his workplace’s web page.
Israeli wind moves destroyed the Iranian embassy’s consular annex in Damascus on Monday, Syrian and Iranian officers mentioned, with a govern Innovative Preserve commander amongst seven contributors the pressure mentioned have been killed.
Israel mentioned it might no longer remark at the assault, however Iranian officers vowed a stiff reaction, with fears of even additional violence between Israel and Iran’s allies amid the Gaza battle.
Iran’s Islamic Innovative Preserve Corps named Brigadier Common Mohammad Reza Zahedi and every other high-ranking officer, Brigadier Common Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, as amongst seven of its contributors killed.
Britain-based battle observe the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights mentioned 11 society, together with a number of Guards contributors, have been killed when “Israeli missiles… destroyed the building of an annex to the Iranian embassy”.
The toll contains “eight Iranians, two Syrians and one Lebanese — all of them fighters, none of them civilians,” Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Observatory with a community of assets in Syria, informed media.
Iran’s ambassador to Syria, Hossein Akbari, informed Iranian climate TV that the assault “was carried out by F-35 fighter jets” that fired six missiles on the construction.
