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An Israeli attack in Damascus, Syria, killed Iran’s IRGC spy chief and three other IRGC personnel. Tehran says it has the right to take revenge. Photo/REUTERS
TEHERAN – An Israeli attack in Damascus, Syria, killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spy chief and three other Guard members on Saturday. Tehran says it reserves the right to take revenge.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the Syrian war, said 10 people were killed in the Israeli attack on the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus.
In recent weeks, Israel has been accused of intensifying attacks on senior figures from Iran and its allies in Syria and Lebanon, supporters of the Hamas group, raising fears that the Gaza conflict could escalate.
“The head of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence (for) Syria, his deputy and two other members of the Guards were martyred in the attack on Syria by Israel,” the Mehr news agency wrote, citing an informed Iranian source.
In a statement, the IRGC confirmed that it lost four members in attacks it said were carried out by Israel, its regional arch enemy.
The IRGC-linked Sepah news agency reported : “The evil and criminal Zionist regime (Israel) killed four military advisers. They were identified as Hojatollah Omidvar, Ali Aghazadeh, Hossein Mohammadi and Saeed Karimi.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned the attack as a desperate attempt by the Israeli Zionist regime to spread instability in the region.
“Iran has the right to respond to the organized terrorism of the fake Zionist regime at the right time and place,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani as quoted by AFP, Sunday (21/1/2024).
He also urged foreign countries and international organizations to condemn the Israeli attack.