Israel took the risk of violating diplomatic decorum and killed 3 high-value targets. Netanyahu’s game remains a gamble, but this time a highly successful one.
At least seven officers overseeing Iran’s covert operations in the Middle East were killed in Damascus on Monday, when Israeli warplanes struck part of the Iranian Embassy complex in the Syrian Capital, according to a statement by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
The strike killed three generals in Iran’s Quds Force, the external military and intelligence service of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and four other officers, the Corps said, making it one of the deadliest attacks of the yearslong shadow war between Israel and Iran.
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Mohammad Reza Zahedi (Persian: محمدرضا زاهدی; 2 November 1960[3] – 1 April 2024) was an Iranian senior military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He previously commanded its Air Force and Ground Force[4] and was one of the top commanders of the Quds Force at the time of his death.[2] He was killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus during the Israel–Hamas war.[5][6]
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that seven Iranian military advisers died in the strike including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in its Quds Force, which is an elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm.
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According to Iranian state media, several diplomats were also killed, although the ambassador, Hossein Akbari, is reported to have been unharmed.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards says seven officers have been killed in an Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate building in Syria's capital, Damascus.
Brig-Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the elite Quds Force, and Brig-Gen Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi, his deputy, were named among the dead.
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Syria's foreign minister Faisal Mekdad, who later attended the scene, said his country "strongly condemns this atrocious
terrorist attack that targeted the Iranian consulate building in Damascus and killed a number of innocents".