This is reported by state Syrian media.
According to the news agency Reuters, the Iranian website SNN reports that the Israeli attack was aimed at the Iranian consulate and the ambassador’s residence in Damascus.
A senior figure in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, has been killed, according to an unnamed Reuters source.
– The situation is horrible
Iranian state television also reports that Zahedi has been killed, and that the attack was targeted to kill him, writes Reuters.
According to the Iranian TV channel, several Iranian diplomats are to be among those killed.
According to the exile group SOHR, a total of six people lost their lives in the attack.
Iran will respond strongly after the attack, says Iran’s ambassador to Syria, according to Reuters.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the attack is a violation of “all international conventions” and that Iran will hold Israel responsible for the consequences, according to Iranian state media.
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Both Syrian state media and a correspondent for the AFP news agency confirm that the Iranian consulate is completely damaged after the attack.
In the past week, Israel has carried out a number of attacks against targets in Syria. On Friday, according to SOHR, over 53 people were killed in an attack that targeted a rocket warehouse belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah movement near Aleppo. Among those killed were 38 Syrian government soldiers and seven members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, according to SOHR.
In recent years, Israel has carried out several hundred attacks against pro-Iranian militias fighting on the side of President Bashar al-Assad in the 13-year civil war in Syria. The attacks have been stepped up since the war broke out on October 7 between Israel and Hamas, which is allied with Hezbollah.
