On Monday, Israeli air strikes destroyed the Iranian embassy’s consular annex in Damascus, Syrian and Iranian officials said, with a top Revolutionary Guard commander among seven members the force said were killed, amid worsening regional tensions.
Israel said it won’t comment on the reported attack, but Iranian officials vowed a response with fears of even more violence between Israel and Iran’s allies triggered by the Gaza war.
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.
‘Eleven people, including several Guards members, were killed when Israeli missiles destroyed the building of an annex to the Iranian embassy’, said Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The toll includes eight Iranians, two Syrians and one Lebanese, all of them fighters, none of them civilians.
Iran’s ambassador to Syria, Hossein Akbari, said that at least five people were killed in the attack which was carried out by F-35 fighter jets which fired six missiles at the building.
According to the media reports, the annex building had caved in, and emergency services were rushing to search for victims under the rubble as sirens weeped in the upscale Damascus district of Mazzeh.
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