Israeli strikes hit on Monday 1er April, an upscale neighborhood of Damascus, state media reported. An Agence France-Presse correspondent on site confirmed that the Iranian embassy annex building had been razed by the strike.
Iran’s foreign ministry condemned the Israeli strikes, which killed eight people according to theSyrian Observatory for Human Rightse (OSDH).
“The Israeli enemy launched airstrikes from the occupied Golan, targeting the Iranian consulate building in Damascus”affirmed, for its part, the Iranian defense ministry.
He added that the strike had “entirely destroyed the building”located in Mazzeh, a neighborhood that also houses embassies and United Nations buildings. “All those inside were killed or injured”continued the ministry.
Iran calls for international “response”
According to information from the Iranian state television IRIBa commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s ideological army, was killed in the strikes. “Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a top commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, was martyred in an attack by Zionist regime fighters on the annex from the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus », the Syrian capital, she said. The OSDH also confirms the death of “two Iranian advisors and five members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard”.
During a call with his Syrian counterpart, the head of Iranian diplomacy, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, considered the attack “as a violation of all international obligations and conventions” and called on the international community to provide “a serious answer” to Israeli strikes.
“Hossein Akbari, ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus, and his family were not injured during the Israeli attack”specified for his part the Iranian Nour news agency.
