IRGC Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi was among the many useless in a Damascus airstrike
Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on Damascus, Syria.
The Monday assault destroyed a constructing adjoining to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing no less than six individuals, in accordance with the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). Iranian media recognized the constructing because the Iranian consulate and the ambassador’s residence. Iran’s Tasnim News Agency recognized Zahedi, a senior commander within the IRGC’s Quds Force, as being among the many useless. His deputy was reportedly killed as effectively.
According to a Reuters correspondent in Damascus, the consulate was “flattened,” in what was described as “a startling apparent escalation of conflict in the Middle East that would pit Israel against Iran and its allies.”
Israel has not commented on the strike. West Jerusalem hardly ever acknowledges its airstrikes towards Syria, which Damascus has repeatedly denounced as violations of its sovereignty.
The assault on the consulate is “a breach of all international conventions,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stated in a name to his Syrian counterpart, in accordance with Iranian media. He added that Tehran will maintain Israel accountable. Iran’s ambassador to Syria stated the response will probably be “harsh,” in accordance with Reuters.
The Quds Force is the IRGC’s army intelligence and unconventional operations arm. Zahedi was reportedly in command of its operations in Syria and Lebanon. Its most well-known commander, General Qassem Soleimani, was assassinated in January 2020 by a US drone, whereas visiting Baghdad, Iraq.
Another Quds Force commander, General Razi Mousavi, was killed in Damascus final December, additionally by an Israeli airstrike that was not formally acknowledged.
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