Tag: Damascus

Iran invoking self-defence following Damascus bombing

Moscow expressed concern at escalation in the Middle East on Sunday following the Iranian overnight attacks on Israel and blamed Western powers for failing to respond to the earlier attack on Iran’s consulate in Damascus. “Unfortunately, due to the position adopted by its Western members, the [UN] Security Council was unable to provide a proper […]

Iran warns Israel its embassies are not safe after deadly Damascus strike

A top Iranian military adviser has warned Israel that none of its embassies are safe following a strike in Damascus last week, blamed on Israel, which killed 12 people, including two elite Iranian generals. Regional tensions have threatened to draw the Middle East into a wider conflict as Israel’s war against Hamas marks six months. […]

Thousands join funeral for Iranian general killed in Damascus strike

Iranian Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who was killed in a rocket attack in Damascus, was buried on Saturday in his birthplace of Isfahan in central Iran. According to the ISNA news agency, thousands of people attended the state-organized funeral of the high-ranking officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The 63-year-old Zahedi, his […]

Iran’s Raisi again threatens Israel for Damascus attack

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi again threatened retribution for a suspected Israeli airstrike on an Iranian embassy building in Syria’s capital Damascus in which several people were killed. The attack “will not go unanswered” and of course retaliation and revenge will be taken, Raisi said in a speech on Iranian television on Wednesday. The attack showed […]

Iran’s Raisi again threatens Israel for Damascus attack

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has again threatened retribution for a suspected Israeli airstrike on an Iranian embassy building in Syria’s capital Damascus in which several people were killed. The attack “will not go unanswered” and of course retaliation and revenge will be taken, Raisi said in a speech on Iranian television on Wednesday. The attack […]

Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei threatens Israel after strike on Damascus

Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened Israel with retaliation after two Iranian generals were killed in a suspected Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus. “The malicious regime will be punished by our brave men,” he said on Tuesday in a statement a day after the strike. “We will make sure that they […]

Iran says it will retaliate for Israel’s attack on its Damascus consulate

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 […]

Revolutionary Guards killed in airstrike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus

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 […]

Israeli airstrike destroys Iran’s consular building in Damascus, Syria says

An Israeli airstrike has destroyed the consular section of Iran’s embassy in Syria, killing a senior Iranian military adviser and roughly a handful of other people, Syrian state media said on Monday. The strike on the Iranian consulate building could mark an escalation of the Israeli military’s ongoing targeting of Iranian military officials and allies […]