French police have detained a man at the Iranian consulate in Paris after responding to a report of a suspicious man possibly carrying a grenade and explosives vest. Officers in the capital did they did not immediately confirm finding any weapons. A Paris police official said officers are verifying the man’s identity and trying to […]
Iran’s foreign minister on Monday accused the United States of giving Israel the “green light” for a strike on its consulate building in Syria that killed seven Iranian military officials including two generals. Hossein Amirabdollahian reiterated Tehran’s vows that it will respond to the attack, widely blamed on Israel, that appeared to signify an escalation […]
The leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said on Friday that the Iranian retaliation for the attack on its consulate in Damascus “is coming inevitably.” Nasrallah, during a rally to mark Jerusalem Day, described the alleged Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus earlier this week as a “turning […]
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The head of Lebanon’s armed group Hezbollah said on Friday that Israel’s strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus this week marked a “turning point” since Oct. 7, when Palestinian group Hamas launched an attack on Israel that has led to escalating regional tensions. The Damascus strike on Monday killed seven Iranian Revolutionary […]
Iran is vowing to hit back after an alleged Israeli strike hit near the Iranian embassy in Syria, killing at least seven people, including a senior commander in Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei lamented the Monday death of Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the most high-profile loss […]
Iran will retaliate for a suspected Israeli air strike against its consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday, a day after seven Iranian military commanders were killed in the attack. “Having failed to destroy the will of the resistance front, the Zionist regime (Israel) has put blind assassinations back […]
Iran and one of its key proxies vowed to respond to a strike, widely attributed to Israel, that demolished Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus and killed seven people, including two Iranian generals. Iran’s state TV reported that the country’s Supreme National Security Council, a key decision-making body, met late on Monday and […]
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard said on Monday that seven of its members were killed in an airstrike that hit Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Syrian officials and state media blamed Israel, which declined to comment. The strike on Iran’s embassy compound appears to signify an escalation of Israel’s targeting of Iranian military officials […]
STORY: A Lebanese security source, speaking to Reuters, said one of the dead was Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Iranian state television said several Iranian diplomats had been killed. Reuters reporters at the scene in the Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital saw smoke rising from rubble of […]
An Israeli strike has destroyed the Iranian consulate building in Syria’s capital, Damascus, killing a number of people, Syrian state media report. Pictures showed smoke and dust rising from the flattened structure, which was next door to the Iranian embassy on a highway in the western Mezzeh district. One Iranian news agency said five people […]
DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus was flattened on Monday in what Syrian and Iranian media described as an Israeli air strike, a startling apparent escalation of conflict in the Middle East that would pit Israel against Iran and its allies. A Lebanese security source, speaking to Reuters, said one of the […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An Israeli airstrike has destroyed the consular section of Iran’s embassy in Damascus, killing or wounding everyone inside, Syrian state media said Monday. The Iranian Arabic-language state television Al-Alam and pan-Arab television station Al-Mayadeen, which has reporters in Syria, said the strike killed Iranian military adviser Gen. Ali Reza Zahdi. Zahdi […]