On Tuesday, Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group warned that Israel will pay for killing high-level Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in a strike on the country’s consulate in Damascus, Syria, the day before.
Hezbollah has exchanged near-daily cross-border fire with Israel in support of its ally Hamas since the Gaza war erupted in October. The Israeli strike killed seven IRGC members including Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and another high-ranking officer, Brigadier General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, the IRGC said.
Meanwhile 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.
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