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Iran warned arch foe Israel on Tuesday that it will “punish” an air strike that killed seven Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals, at its consular annex in Damascus.
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Four other people were also reported killed in Monday’s strike which levelled the five-storey building adjacent to the Iranian embassy and further stoked tensions already running high as the Gaza war nears the end of its sixth month.
Israel declined to comment on the strike, which fuelled Middle East tensions already enflamed by the war in Gaza between Israel and Iran ally Hamas.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed that Israel would be punished.
“The evil Zionist regime will be punished at the hands of our brave men. We will make them regret this crime and the other ones,” Khamenei said in a message published on his official website.
President Ebrahim Raisi condemned the attack as a “clear violation of international regulations” which “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 said on his office’s website.
The UN Security Council is to discuss the strike later Tuesday at a meeting requested by Syrian ally Russia.
The strike on the annex killed seven Revolutionary Guards, including two commanders of its Quds Force foreign operations arm, Brigadier Generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, Iranian offiials said.
Zahedi, 63, had held a succession of commands in the force in a Guards career spanning more than four…
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Source : france24
