Iran says Israel’s attack on its Damascus consulate will not go unanswered
On Tuesday Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi made a statement on his office’s website condemning a deadly airstrike of alleged Israely origin against his country’s consular annex in Damascus.
“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… This cowardly crime will not go unanswered,” Raisi’s official statement says.
The airstrike on the Iranian embassy’s five-story annex took seven members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps – Iran’s overseas military operations brunch.
Among the dead, were two the Quds Force senior commanders, Brigadier Generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi.
Israel declined any comments on the strike.
The UN Security Council was to discuss the deadly strike later Tuesday at Russia’s request.
Iran’s mission to the world body warned about potential escalation of the conflict and called on the Council “to condemn this unjustified criminal act.”
