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Kabul: The Israeli Air Force strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus will not remain unanswered, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has said.
“After repeated defeats and failures the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its agenda, but it should know that it will never achieve its sinister goals with such inhumane measures, and this cowardly crime will not go unanswered,” Raisi said in a statement published on the presidential website.
The Iranian president condemned “this inhumane attack, which is a clear violation of international regulations.” Raisi noted that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, elite military units) generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi, who were killed in the strike, were in Damascus as senior military advisers and now “proudly joined the caravan of martyrs.” The president also offered condolences to the families of those killed in the attack.
On April 1, the SANA news agency reported that the Israeli Air Force hit a house in Damascus. Later, Iranian media reported that the Iranian consulate building located on Mezzeh Avenue in the west of the Syrian capital was shelled. The IRGC’s public relations office reported the deaths of seven military advisers, generals Zahedi and Haji-Rahimi and five other officers. According to Iranian state TV channel IRIB, Zahedi commanded the IRGC’s Al-Quds Special Forces units in Lebanon and Syria.
The Afghanistan foreign ministry condemned the attack on the Iranian consular office in Syria and said that ” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has condemned in the strongest terms the Zionist regime’s attack on the consular section of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Syrian capital, Damascus, as a blatant violation of diplomatic norms and a provocative act to spread insecurity in the region.”
Meanwhile, Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN secretary general said,
the United Nations is very concerned about reports of an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital.
“Attacks from the outside on any country or violation of sovereignty we have condemned,” Dujarric added.
