Monday’s deadly attack on a senior IRGC general risked further escalating tensions in a region already roiled by Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
A picture of the late senior Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani hangs amid rubble after what Syrian and Iranian media called an Israeli airstrike on Iran's consulate in Damascus on Monday.
“Iran reserves its legitimate and inherent right under international law and the United Nations Charter to take a decisive response to such reprehensible acts,” Zahra Ershadi, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations,Israel has carried out strikes in Syria against Iran and its allies for years and throughout its six-month military campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
“IRGC leadership who are on the front lines of the states neighboring Israel are high-value targets,” said Azizi, “especially those involved in conducting operations with Hamas and Hezbollah.” Images of the aftermath from Damascus on Monday showed thick clouds of smoke rising from a partially collapsed building that served as Iran’s consulate, adjacent to the Iranian Embassy.“We strongly condemn this heinous terrorist attack,” Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad said, according to Sana, Syria’s state news agency.overnight in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, later claimed by Iranian-aligned militants in Iraq.
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