“Iranian Embassy Annex in Damascus Hit by Israeli Airstrike, Killing Seven Guards Corps Members”
“Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi strongly condemns the deadly airstrike attributed to Israel targeting Iran’s consular annex in Damascus. Raisi asserts that such a ‘cowardly crime’ will not be left 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.
“Day by day, we have witnessed the strengthening of the Resistance Front and the disgust and hatred of free nations towards the illegitimate nature of (Israel). This cowardly crime will not go unanswered.”
“The airstrike on Iran’s embassy’s five-story annex resulted in the death of seven members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, responsible for Iran’s overseas military operations.”
Among the dead, were Brigadier Generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, both senior commanders in the Quds Force, Guards’ foreign operations arm.
Zahedi, 63, had held a succession of commands in the force in a Guards career spanning more than four decades.The UN Security Council was to discuss the deadly strike later Tuesday at a meeting requested by Syrian ally Russia.
“Iran reserves its legitimate and inherent right under international law and the United Nations Charter to take a decisive response to such reprehensible acts,” Iran’s mission to the world body said.
