On Tuesday, President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran said that Israel’s air strikes on an Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, Syria, which killed three top Iranian commanders, will not go unanswered.
Government supporters took to the streets and called for retaliation against Israel. The strike, on part of the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus, killed three generals in Iran’s Quds Force and other officers, making it one of the deadliest attacks of the yearslong shadow war between Israel and Iran.
Raisi said it was an inhumane assault in brazen violation of international law, in comments. He added that it will not go unanswered but gave no details of how Iran might respond.
Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, said in an earlier post on X that Iran had summoned the Swiss ambassador after midnight local time and asked that an important message be delivered to Washington: That as Israel’s ally, the US must answer for Israel’s actions. Switzerland acts as the US representative in the absence of diplomatic relations between Tehran and Washington.
In Washington, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council said that the US had no involvement in the strike and did not know about it ahead of time.
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